Today’s guest Jennifer Cox has been dubbed the Tie-Dye “Ninja” and Denim Wash Specialist. She spent a highly successful 20-year career in corporate America as a Wash Specialist for Abercrombie & Fitch, Mossimo Supply at Target, and other private label denim brands. She’s made & designed clothing for everyone from Nordstroms to Macy’s, Target, and Walmart.
Jen accomplished all of this as a single mother of two sons before being laid off in early 2020. In this episode, she and I discuss the guts it took for her to bet on herself in a big way. She shares her journey into entrepreneurship during the pandemic. Jen is the Founder & CEO of Momma Osa, a company that creates tie-dye kits for Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom’s, Lands’ End, and more. Her kits have been featured on Good Morning America. She shares what led her to cash out her 401k to buy 40,000 masks and the worst advice she was given when she started out on her own.
Listen in as Jen and I talk about the early steps to starting your own business, our favorite growth strategies for entrepreneurs, and why she doesn’t believe entrepreneurs have to focus on one project at a time.
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You just have to start. It doesn’t have to be pretty.” – Jen Cox
Show Notes:
- The Brilliant (BALLSY) move she made the day Gov. Newsom declared California to go into a Safer At Home State
- Simple tips on the FIRST STEP to take with a new Business Idea
- How she got STARTED (it all took place between Christmas & New Year’s)
- How she pulls through the really TOUGH DAYS – the ones where the wind has been knocked out of your Entrepreneurial sails) This was a REAL, RAW Transparent share
- Details on a DECISION she made that many of her close friends didn’t agree with (she followed her intuition and it paid big dividends)
- GROWTH strategies for entrepreneurs
- What she ALWAYS BETS On
- And so much more!
I trusted my gut and talked to every single person I knew about the idea that I had.” – Jen Cox
Connect with Jen Cox:
Etsy | Momma Coxie & Co. Instagram | Facebook | Momma Osa
There’s so many people out there that want to help you grow your business. You just have to find the right combination of people to help you do that.” – Jen Cox
I found today’s guest, Sandra Sucher, through a book recommendation in the Wall Street Journal. A professor at Harvard Business School, Sandra has a fantastic story about how she became the co-author of her new book, The Power of Trust. In this episode, she opens up about how a trip to Japan to write one book on layoffs led her to write another very different sort of book. She and I talk about the hidden value of trust in a business and why it can’t be used as a reputation management tool. She also discusses why trust matters so much more in service-based businesses and why the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain is a great role model for businesses that are building trust with their clientele.
Early on in her career, Michelle Seiler Tucker, took the Corporate America approach to her career recruited by a Fortune 500 company, and still felt like she couldn’t get anything accomplished due to the slow moving culture. She decided it was time for a change. Today, with 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, she is an expert at buying, selling, growing, and fixing businesses and is the Founder & CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated.
My guest, Melissa Vitelli, had a successful career in fashion photography but she found her herself being drawn to the food industry through her hobby of vegetable gardening. She joined together with her sister-in-law Lauren and Jar Goods was born. They initially found success at Farmer’s Markets and this led them directly into the arms of Whole Foods.
