The Woman Behind 2,000,000 Weddings

Erika Taught Me

Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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#19: After the worst wedding gift-buying experience online, Shan-Lyn Ma started a journey to revolutionize the industry and co-founded Zola. Now the CEO, she shares how she used modern technology, ambition, and sheer hard work to fundraise and launch what became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. She also gives us tips and advice on saving money when planning your wedding, how to stick to your budget, and the main things you and your partner need to agree on before planning to tie the knot. To apply for the Senior Podcast Producer position at Erika Taught Me: https://erikakullberg.com/producer-application Special thanks to our partners: Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Aura - erikataughtme.com/aura Bilt Rewards - erikataughtme.com/bilt Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified. Prefer video or want closed captions?⁠ Watch this episode on YouTube. Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erikakullberg.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast especially since we’re just getting started. Even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. ⁠Connect with me on Instagram.⁠ For more information, go to⁠ https://www.erikataughtme.com/⁠. Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erikakullberg.com/3DMoney Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erikakullberg.com/MasteringYT ⁠Get more of my free resources.⁠

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0:00.0	We heard from couples they had to use 20 different apps and products and services to plan one
0:07.4	wedding day and it shouldn't have to be that hot. This idea that you could create a registry
0:13.7	and also a wedding that really reflects who you are and what you and your partner are passionate
0:18.7	about. That was something that we felt very motivated to solve. Building a great product
0:24.8	is continuing to listen to the evolving needs and the world is moving so fast.
0:32.2	Today we're talking to Shanlan Ma, co-founder and CEO of Zola which helps with the wedding
0:37.0	planning experience. In this episode, Shanlan discusses the beginnings of Zola and how it became
0:42.6	a million dollar business. I'm Erica Colberg, this is Erica taught me and today we're here with
0:48.4	Shanlan Ma. You guys know that I love investing because you know that if your money is just
0:54.5	sitting in a bank account, you're losing out to inflation every single year. That's why you invest
1:01.0	it so that it grows for you without you having to put in any extra work. I've been using an
1:06.8	investing app called Weeble for almost four years and I had them do something really special for
1:12.2	my listeners. By using my link to sign up today, you can get between six to twelve
1:17.9	fractional shares for free. All you need to do is open an account and deposit any amount,
1:24.2	even a dollar to claim your free shares. So just by depositing a dollar, you'll get between six
1:30.6	to twelve free fractional shares. And if you're wondering what to actually invest in, we talk all
1:36.0	about investing in episode 28, so go ahead and listen to that episode. To claim your free shares
1:42.7	through my special link, just go to erica taughtme.com slash invest or click the link in the show notes
1:49.2	and it's Erica with a K. Again, that's erica taughtme.com slash invest.
1:55.5	One of the things I love about entrepreneurship is entrepreneurs at the core are finding a solution
2:00.1	to a problem. So I want to start by asking you, when you and your co-founders started Zola,
2:06.8	what was the problem that you saw or that you experienced firsthand that you wanted to find a
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