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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Fan Favorite: This episode originally aired on January 11, 2022. Tom Bilyeu gives business advice to Jesse Dow of Grit and Diamonds, a coffee based product that's designed to be great for the skin. Learn more about the product and business here: https://www.gritanddiamonds.com/ StartUp Theory is a series in which founder of Impact Theory and co-founder of Quest Nutrition Tom Bilyeu shares the tactics you need to build a company by breaking down the challenges facing real startups from the Impact Theory community. ********************************************************************** Do you need my help? STARTING a business: Join me inside ZERO TO FOUNDER here SCALING a business: Click here to see if you qualify Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here. ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** Join me live on my Twitch stream. I'm live daily from 6:30 to 8:30 am PT at www.twitch.tv/tombilyeu ********************************************************************** LISTEN TO IMPACT THEORY AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/impacttheory ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Impact Theory podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.
0:09.0	Join host Tom Bill You, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.
0:19.8	Welcome to Impact Theory.
0:26.2	Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Startup Theory. We are here today with Jesse Dow of
0:34.1	Grit and Diamonds, which is a coffee scrub, which is going to be interesting to hear all
0:41.2	about that coffee and salt, if I'm not mistaken. So brace yourselves. He's actually in the
0:45.5	middle of a start kick starter. I'm having a stroke. I'm having a stroke. He's in the middle
0:50.6	of a Kickstarter campaign right now. I think it ends in two hours, right?
0:55.4	12.20 p.m.
1:01.1	All right. So he's hit his minimum already, but it's a pretty intriguing product. So I encourage you guys to go check it out, see what it's all about. If it seems like something that
1:04.6	you're going to be into, it's got sustainability stuff going on, which Jesse will tell us
1:09.5	all about in a second.
1:12.5	But very, very interesting.
1:14.1	You guys should go check it out on Kickstarter.
1:18.0	You can also go to gritendiamonds.com if you want to learn more about the product,
1:20.9	Jesse and his team or anything in between.
1:26.1	So all right, without further ado, Jesse, tell us a little bit about your company,
1:26.6	if you would.
1:27.7	All right. Background, coffee, experts, think about your company, if you would. All right.
1:31.2	Background coffee experts spent 10 years in the industry.
1:34.5	Wanted to get back into the industry in a different format.
1:41.0	I came up with this idea that I've seen kind of going around from business to business using coffee as an exfoliant.
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