The Rustic Cuff Story | Founder Jill Donovan Shares How She Grew Her Company from an Idea to a 127-Employee Business
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jill Donovan, the founder of Rustic Cuff shares how she grew RusticCuff.com from just an idea to a large business and the importance of daily diligence, determination and never giving up.
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| 0:00.0 | They said, oh my gosh, I can't believe you're on the cover of Oprah. |
| 0:02.5 | I opened the inside cover and it said, Oprah wearing rustic cuff. |
| 0:05.5 | And I, I about, I about died. |
| 0:09.2 | I don't think that I ever thought that I would, that I would get bigger than I was when I was sitting on |
| 0:14.3 | the floor in my bedroom and my orders were written on a piece of my daughter's |
| 0:18.6 | craft paper because I literally knew nothing about running a company, nothing about, I mean zero. |
| 0:25.0 | Some of the celebrities that I have been excited about that have seen wearing rustic |
| 0:28.9 | cuff, Brittany Spears, Miranda Lambert, Kathy Lee Gifford, Michael Buble, |
| 0:33.4 | Giuliano Ransick on E-News. |
| 0:35.6 | For me, and I think for all the 25 girls that work here, |
| 0:38.0 | it has become so much bigger than just cuffs. |
| 0:41.5 | I think you have to get with people who have been there who have |
| 0:44.6 | walked the road and who are still walking it and can impart some wisdom to you. |
| 0:49.4 | The years of experience from all of the people that are part of Thrive 15, you cannot |
| 0:56.2 | get that elsewhere. |
| 0:57.2 | It is like reading an amazing book. |
| 1:00.0 | You can actually sit down at your computer have 15 minutes of watching somebody with amazing |
| 1:05.7 | knowledge. |
| 1:06.7 | If I would have had this three years ago, I would have known so much in the beginning that took me years to learn just through the experience. |
| 1:16.0 | For a mom who thinks I just can't do that, there's no way that I could ever do what she does |
| 1:20.0 | because I have four kids or I have zero money or all the the can't that you would put in front of you. |
| 1:26.0 | If you really really want to do something you make the time and you find the way to do it. |
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