NEST :: RESPONSIBLE GROWTH & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT OF THE ARTISAN & MAKER
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Release Date: 04/14/2024
BITE TOOTHPASTE BITS
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Lindsay McCormick is founder and CEO of Bite. Kick the tube with Bite Toothpaste Bits to help end the 1 billion toothpaste tubes entering landfill and oceans each year. Lindsay is reinventing toothpaste because it's something we put into our bodies by brushing it into our gums and mouths twice a day, every single day of our lives. Flip the label on your typical toothpaste tube and it is full of chemicals, fillers and unnecessary ingredients, all packaged in plastic that will inevitably end up in a landfill. These tubes are thrown out every year filled with ingredients like sodium lauryl...
info_outline
YOUNG CEO SQUAD
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
After 25 years in corporate marketing, Suzanne Appel turned her entrepreneurial drive into Young CEO Squad, helping kids build real businesses and the confidence to lead. Suzanne joins Justin to discuss her journey as a solo founder and mom, bringing entrepreneurship to more than 300 classrooms nationwide, and exploring AI as a tool for young entrepreneurs. With every kit sold helping fund workshops and scholarships, she’s working to ensure opportunity reaches kids in every zip code—one kid business at a time.
info_outline
VACATION DARTS
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Vacation Darts is a lifestyle and apparel brand founded by Joey Coffin, a 36-year-old former Yelp restaurant manager based in Vancouver (originally from Toronto). A "vacation dart" refers to a cigarette that is smoked exclusively while on vacation. The tongue-in-cheek motto behind the brand is that "vacation darts don't count". It is a rule-free mindset representing the permission to drop everyday expectations, enjoy minor indulgences, and not take life too seriously. After printing an initial batch of hats in Toronto in mid-2024 (which sold out quickly and even had people offering to buy the...
info_outline
LOFTY POPS
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Natalie Heiter is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Lofty Pops, a fast-growing, Detroit-based handcrafted ice pop brand. She launched the venture alongside her brother and business partner, Philip Stakich, in July 2024. The siblings debuted Lofty Pops with an initial kiosk at the Detroit Zoo in July 2024. Philip brought prior food-truck and operations experience from running Marilyn's Detroit, while Natalie leveraged her background in marketing and advertising. The brand focuses on real-fruit, chef-crafted, and certified USDA Organic ice pops made with zero artificial colors,...
info_outline
THE COFFEE STOPPER™, THE FLUSHER BLOCKER™, & THE SIPPIE CLIPPIE™
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Cara Brzezicki is the inventor of The Coffee Stopper, a small, reusable silicone accessory that helps prevent coffee from splashing out of takeout lids. It came from one of those everyday annoyances that made Cara wonder, "Why has nobody solved this?" Cara was not a product-development expert when she started. She simply saw a problem, believed there had to be a better solution, and figured out how to bring the idea to life. Since launching, she has learned the hard way about manufacturing, patents, retail, distribution, marketing, and all the persistence required to get a physical product...
info_outline
NULASTIN
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Welcome to NULASTIN. They are a transformational beauty brand built on routine, results and longevity science. Their clinically proven, elastin replenishing formulas support healthier looking hair, visibly fuller lashes and brows and resilient skin. Your journey with NULASTIN goes beyond before and afters. It’s about reaching confidence milestones that help you feel like you again. Award winning media personality and professional athlete Leah Garcia founded NULASTIN® in 2016 after living the hair loss journey firsthand and being told there wasn’t much she could do about it. Refusing to...
info_outline
DR. NOZE BEST
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
You deserve the best care for your child’s health. At Dr. Noze Best they bring hospital-grade efficiency and safety right to your home with innovative healthcare products developed by a pediatric ENT that support a healthier, happier respiratory system for your baby. Christy Brown is the CEO of Dr. Noze Best. Under her leadership, the brand has scaled rapidly, expanding into major retailers like Target and Walmart while championing hospital-grade, wearable pediatric care products like the NozeBot. Christy joins Justin to discuss this fast-growing brand!
info_outline
WAIĀKEA HAWAIIAN VOLCANIC BEVERAGES
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Waiakea® was founded in Hilo, Hawai'i in 2012 as the first Hawaiian volcanic water and triple bottom line premium water of its kind, adapting an unparalleled platform of healthy, sustainable, and ethical attributes and initiatives. Their mission is to provide healthy Hawaiian volcanic water with the blessing of indigenous kupuna and konohiki, while contributing to and promoting clean water access, conservation, and education for those in need in Hawai'i and throughout the world. Co-founder and CEO Ryan Emmons joins Justin to discuss this fast-growing beverage brand!
info_outline
SUPERTEAMS: THE SCIENCE AND SECRETS OF HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Ron Friedman, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist who helps leaders build high-performing teams. He is the bestselling author of The Best Place to Work and Decoding Greatness. His new book, Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams, reveals what the best teams do differently. Superteams reveals what the best teams do differently, based on the most comprehensive study of elite groups ever conducted. After surveying thousands of teams, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman found that the most successful teams aren’t the ones that collaborate most, get along best,...
info_outline
COCO5 :: WHAT COCONUT WATER WISHES IT TASTED LIKE
ContenderCast with Justin Honaman
Made with real ingredients, 5 electrolytes, and a natural taste you’ll love, Coco5 is perfect for at the gym, on the go—and even the morning after a long night out. Treat yourself to active hydration that’s actually good. Real good. That’s Coco5. Jim Reynolds joins Justin to discuss this high-growth brand!
info_outlineRebecca van Bergen is the Founder and Executive Director of Nest, a nonprofit supporting the responsible growth and creative engagement of the artisan and maker economy to build a world of greater gender equity and economic inclusion. Rebecca leads an organization that is partnering with brand leaders such as Etsy, Madewell, Patagonia, Target and West Elm to improve transparency, social wellbeing, and economic opportunity for handworkers which includes both artisans and less skilled manual laborers, often working from their homes. Nest’s comprehensive suite of artisan and maker programming reaches over 250,000 handworkers working across 1,500+ artisan businesses in 124 countries.