Winning On Your Own Terms ft.Kim Lewis

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week our financial besties are joined by Kim Lewis.Kim Lewis is the CEO and co-founder of CurlMix, a clean beauty brand for curly hair. After a strong showing on Season 10 of ABC’s Emmy Award-winning Shark Tank with her husband and co-founder, Tim, Kim made the daring decision to bet on herself, and turned down a $400,000 Shark deal. Less than six months later, Kim’s talent for logistics and marketing secured a seed investment of $1.2M, multiplied CurlMix’ sales into the millions, and grew the CurlMix team to 30+ full-time staff…all while raising two small children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.8	But before we hit the guest up, Mandy, you said you want to talk briefly about Beyonce, girl.
1:23.6	And what a perfect time to.
1:26.2	Well, we have a guest on as we
1:27.2	we're talking about her hair care business,
1:29.7	but also I died.
1:31.8	The internet was broken yesterday because first of all I'm uncomfortable
1:36.8	at how much Beyoncé is talking to us right now. Like just the cut she's
1:41.1	producing like content and people are looking like we're all like I think a little PTSD from the renaissance toward how much it costs and how it just like took over last year and we're all just like so many comments are like not yet Beyonce I don't have any money please don't announce a tour
1:55.2	But yesterday she thought she would just set the record straight in the most hilarious way that she got inches
2:02.2	Inches for days and you know she launched her hair care
2:04.8	brand and people started talking about well she wears wigs I guess and I had no
2:08.9	time to read any slander of Beyoncé in her strands but it was just so funny because she
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