Supplements You’ll Actually Want To Take (For Real!), Turning Childhood Trauma Into Resilience + How-To Build a Culture Where People *Like* Coming to Work ft. Cymbiotika Co-Founder Durana Elmi
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
You may have seen Cymbiotika’s sleek, easy-to-down supplement pouches on Instagram already, and today, we’re bringing you the brilliant backstory. In partnership with our friends at Cymbiotika, we’re sitting down with Durana Elmi, the Co-Founder & COO responsible for the brand’s skyrocketing growth.
Find out how the Afghan-American powerhouse was able to overcome personal hardships in her youth to become the resilient leader she is today, the keys to achieving Cymbiotika’s fast-won success and the life lessons that she’s instilling in her daughters along the way.
Tune in to hear about:
- The healthy habits, mindset and supplements that Durana personally follows to look and feel her best everyday
- The clever and creative ways that she’s changing corporate culture, so that people actually want to come into the office everyday
- Scoop alert! We get a sneak peek at the lifestyle category that Cymbiotika will expand to next
- How Cymbiotika is supporting the non-profit, Helping Hands for Afghans, a passion project to help women, children and refugees
- Plus! Rapidfire: BOSS Edition, including what *not* to do in a job interview, how to nail a cover letter and the one thing that’s a big no-no at any office
Cymbiotika
Cymbiotika is a lifestyle brand featuring more than 50 products to boost your health and wellness routine - everything from their best-selling Liposomal Glutathione
and Super Greens Dietary Supplement pouches (Carlene’s fave!) to their energy-boosting Cymbiotika Liposomal Vitamin B12 + B6 (Jill’s fave!). If you want to try Cymbiotika for yourself, use code BREAKINGBEAUTY on cymbiotika.com for 15% off sitewide or create your custom bundle and get up to 45% off.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, |
| 0:08.8 | the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:12.9 | We're your host, Jill Dunn, and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:15.8 | Hello, it's Wednesday and welcome welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. I'm |
| 0:25.8 | Carleen Higgins and I'm here with my darling work wife and co-host. It's Jill Dunn. |
| 0:30.3 | Hey everybody and Hey Carleen, We of course are two beauty editors turned beauty |
| 0:35.4 | podcasters bringing you the breakthrough people products and moments in |
| 0:39.3 | beauty every single week. When our show actually started, all we did was talk to founders. |
| 0:44.0 | We've evolved since then, but we're excited to be sharing an epic founder story today |
| 0:48.0 | and that's in partnership with our friends at symbiotica. |
| 0:51.6 | Yes. |
| 0:52.0 | And you've probably seen the supplement brand everywhere all over |
| 0:54.7 | Instagram. Like I mean, I remember seeing it when it first popped up a few years ago and it was like all the cool |
| 1:00.7 | LA girls were using symbiotica and I was like instantly intrigue |
| 1:04.7 | plus it just looked extremely easy to use and I'm all about that. Yeah and I |
| 1:11.7 | mean we've been talking about our wellness journeys and for me my gut journey here on the show a lot. |
| 1:18.0 | So I think this is part of us branching out a little bit more into wellness. |
| 1:22.1 | We all know that, you know that beauty from within is important and when it comes to supplements, just speaking for myself personally, you know, a lot of the brands and branding out there have been kind of like hard body and then you know it's it's evolved and it's way more elegant now and so I'm excited to be introducing everyone to Sembiotica because I like these little individual |
| 1:44.9 | pouches. It's almost like a syrup inside so you can just like there's a Vitamin C one you can just suck |
| 1:50.6 | it back on a plane or whatever. Yes. And they have this green one, this chloroform one. |
| 1:56.9 | Yeah, you mix that into your water. |
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