Hello everyone and welcome to the Evolved Emily Show. I am your host, Emily Hayden, and I am coming to you guys from Southern Utah. I'm on a little bit of an adventure right now. So we have the podcast show on the road and I am on Zoom interviewing two beautiful, successful women in business who are also friends in business, who have also figured out how to self-fund your

business. So for all my women out there that are looking to start a business, you're thinking

about going into business with a friend, and you're wondering if you can do it without investors,

today is going to answer all of those questions for you. Today I have on the show the Clear Stem founders,

Kaylee and Danielle, who have also been featured in Forbes, The Zoe Report, Refinery 29,

amongst many others. ClearSem, their business, has won prestigious awards such as Women's Health

Magazine, Best Exfoliator for Acne Porn Skin.

So let's go ahead and get into welcoming you guys to the show.

Kaylee, Danielle, welcome.

Thank you so much for having us.

Of course.

Let's go ahead and start with Y Clear Stem.

And what's the why behind you starting that as your business?

Yeah, so Kaylee and I are both really acne prone.

And if you've ever battled with your skin before, you know, it can just be very demoralizing and really psychologically damaging.

And it's just, it's just the worst, right?

So, but the thing is, is a lot of things that you would look for to help you with that, like, say, going to the dermatologist or trying new skin products, et cetera, et cetera. A lot of it makes it worse or doesn't help because it's not holistic enough to get to all of the triggers. It's focusing on like one thing. So basically how it happened is I had gone through after dealing with like horrible cystic acne for well over 10 years, 10, 12 years.

I had done every single thing you could imagine like esthetician, dermatologists, different types of dermatologists, different types of medical practitioners.

I had done acutane three separate times by the time I was

like 28. And the third round, it was starting to impact my vision. And the optometrist I was working

with was afraid it was going to become permanent. So I was like, this isn't worth going blind for.

And each time it came back with a vengeance every time I stopped. So I was like, this isn't worth going blind for. And each time it came back with a vengeance every time I stopped.

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