The One From Shelter to CEO, Founder of Evio Beauty - Brandi Leifso
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After fleeing a relationship, Brandi found herself in a women’s shelter with $15 and a laptop to her name. With that laptop, she would learn how to photoshop and create a dream beauty brand, and sell its products before they even existed. What happened next is nothing short of tenacious and inspiring. That non-existent beauty brand dream just 5 years later became a $15 Million Dollar evaluated beauty company, Evio Beauty. Hiring fellow women from the shelter and creating change as she goes, we learn about running a business as a movement is something that will leave everyone inspired and hope-filled.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.5 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:31.9 | What was really cool with you is that I've had so many people be like, you need to hear this founder's story. Like, |
| 0:40.4 | you need to hear her story. You need to have her on your pod. You need to, you just need to hear about her. |
| 0:45.7 | And I was like, all I know is that I like her makeup, but like I didn't know your story. So this is what's so |
| 0:52.1 | cool about this is while we have somewhat these |
| 0:55.0 | intersections of each other's lives and mutual friends, I have no idea what your backstory is. |
| 1:00.5 | I had somebody send me a couple links of like your backstory and I was like, I don't even want to |
| 1:05.1 | read them. Like I just, I'm so excited to kind of get to hear it from you. So give me the goods. |
| 1:10.2 | Tell me a little bit about who you |
| 1:11.9 | are, what you do now and your backstory, because I've heard it's absolutely incredible. And I really |
| 1:17.5 | can't wait. Thank you. Yeah. So I mean, I think the backstory, it's always so interesting. And you can |
| 1:24.9 | probably relate to this a lot too, like with your life on Instagram, |
| 1:28.6 | is that I think what people think is interesting about me in this particular backstory aspect. |
| 1:34.3 | I mean, what I've really put out in the world is such a small sliver. |
| 1:38.3 | But what I'm sure, your friends and people were referring to of my backstories, |
| 1:43.5 | how I started EVO. So when I started EVO, I was 21 |
| 1:47.8 | years old. It wasn't called EVO at the time. And I was actually living in a safe house, |
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