4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Sophia Amoruso is an online educator, serial entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author. She has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine and featured in the Fortune 40 under 40, Forbes 30 under 30, Inc. 30 under 30, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business lists, and featured on the June 2016 cover of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women issue.
Sophia founded women’s network Girlboss as well as fashion startup Nasty Gal, which she built to over $100 million in revenue. In 2014, Sophia wrote a NYT Bestselling book, #GIRLBOSS, which Charlize Theron later turned into a Netflix series. She also hosted Girlboss Radio, a podcast with over 20 million downloads.
Sophia recently stepped away from Girlboss to launch something new, and is now focused on providing inspiration and advice to her community on lifestyle, entrepreneurship, wellness, and beauty.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. |
0:06.6 | Welcome to another episode of the show. |
0:09.1 | My favorite day of the week when I record this, because I'm so excited to get this out into the world. |
0:14.6 | And today's episode, these are the ones that I love. |
0:17.5 | We get something extra special from an extra special person, which |
0:21.7 | I feel like we get that at most episodes, aside from those micro shows where I just share my |
0:26.6 | experiences. But this show is indeed one of the shows where I sit down with one of the world's |
0:31.4 | top creators and entrepreneurs and unpack their brain with the goal of helping you live your |
0:35.5 | dream in career and hobby and in life. |
0:37.6 | And our guest today is the one and only inimitable Ms. Sophia Emeruso. |
0:42.9 | Now, you've probably recognized her as the serial entrepreneur that she is and New York Times bestselling author. |
0:49.5 | She's been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine, featured in Fortune 40 under 40, Forbes 30 under 30, |
0:55.5 | Inc. 30 under 30, fast companies, most creative people in business, and named one of Forbes |
1:01.1 | richest self-made woman, women in 2014, her New York Times bestseller girl boss, chronicled |
1:07.7 | her early life, as well as her experience as as founder of fashion company called Nastygal. |
1:13.1 | That was adapted into a TV series that premiered on Netflix produced by Shalise Theron, which is crazy, right? |
1:19.6 | That's amazing. |
1:21.1 | But Sophia really made her mark when she found that Nastygal bootstrap that company to 30 million in profitability, |
1:26.9 | raising more than 60 million in venture, and thenrap that company to 30 million in profitability, raising more than |
1:27.9 | 60 million in venture, and then scaled that business to a north of 100 million in revenue. |
1:35.0 | 2017, she found a girl boss, which is a community for ambitious women, and then sold |
1:40.9 | that to, gosh, she sold it to attention capital. And she recently stepped away from |
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