Ramy Brook Sharp: How Her Post-40 Pivot Landed in Hundreds of Retail Locations
Dear FoundHer...Real Founder Stories for Women Small Business Owners
Lindsay Pinchuk
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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What does it take to turn a small idea into a brand that ends up on the racks at Bergdorf Goodman? For Ramy Brook Sharp, it started with a few silk tops, a gap in her own wardrobe, and a belief that women deserved fashion that felt both beautiful and effortless. Lindsay Pinchuk sits down with Ramy to unpack how those early living room trunk shows, personal fabric runs through New York’s Garment District, and countless lessons learned through trial and error shaped what would become the Ramy Brook brand.
Ramy talks about what listening to her customers taught her, like how a simple request for bra-friendly tops completely changed her design philosophy, and how one connection with a personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman turned into a career-defining moment. She reflects on what it means to start a business later in life and why experience and curiosity can be powerful advantages when building something new.
This episode invites you to think differently about growth, resilience, and what it really means to create something that lasts.
Episode Breakdown:
00:00 How Ramy Brook Built a Fashion Brand from Scratch
01:39 The Closet Problem That Sparked an Idea
04:41 Launching Through Trunk Shows and Word-of-Mouth Marketing
06:52 Listening to Customers and Designing for Real Women
09:23 The Bergdorf Goodman Breakthrough
16:55 Starting a Business at 42 and Leveraging Life Experience
24:44 How AI and Innovation Shape the Future of Ramy Brook
32:59 Three Lessons Every Aspiring Founder Should Hear
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Dear Found Her. I'm your host, Lindsay Pinchuck, and in just a few minutes, |
| 0:05.1 | you're going to hear Ramey Brooke Sharp talk about how she started her business. And that was through |
| 0:10.5 | hosting parties in people's homes. Rami really got to know her customer by meeting them in person, |
| 0:16.7 | hosting events where they could touch and feel her product. And even today, as a brand that's in |
| 0:21.4 | hundreds of retail doors nationwide, Ramey talks about the importance of talking to your customer |
| 0:26.4 | and meeting them in person. As someone whose first company was an events-based company, |
| 0:32.0 | I couldn't agree with this more wholeheartedly. Live events, whether in person or online, are key to connecting |
| 0:38.8 | with your customer. After leaving my first company, I never thought I would host an event |
| 0:43.6 | ever again. I had hosted over 2000 in a decade. But if that had been the case, I would have |
| 0:50.3 | missed out on so much. Events are magic. They are where you as a business owner get |
| 0:56.1 | to meet your customer and it's where your customer gets to meet you, seeing what you're all |
| 1:01.1 | about in person. But bigger than that, it's where your customers meet each other and community |
| 1:07.3 | forms. And then the unthinkable happens. Two years ago, you asked for ways to meet one another here at your founder, and so we introduced |
| 1:15.5 | our monthly networking events in Chicago. |
| 1:18.1 | I really hope to be able to host them in other places soon. |
| 1:21.4 | But we also introduced our online workshops and our online networking community where our |
| 1:25.7 | monthly Q&A office hours has turned into |
| 1:28.1 | giant brainstorming sessions for your businesses. I never, ever could imagine having a business |
| 1:35.2 | where meeting my community in person or live online doesn't play a vital role in our marketing |
| 1:40.9 | growth and success. I share that with you to give you something to think about |
| 1:44.5 | and also to encourage you to join an upcoming Dear Founder event or a workshop or a networking |
| 1:49.9 | session for more simple ways to grow your own business. Sign up for our newsletter, The Founder |
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