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6 Quick Questions with Lilly Sparks, Founder of Afterglow (part 2) · Imagine If with Doone Roisin | Health, Wealth & Wisdom for Women (formerly Female Startup Club Podcast)

• 0:00
  Welcome back. Here are the six quick questions. The question number one is, what's your why? Why are you doing what you're doing? Yeah, I want people to have great sex. Like I had to go through this journey of my own kind of sexual discovery after my divorce. And I just want that to be easier for everybody else.
• 0:29
  100%. Question number two is what's been your favorite marketing moment so far? My favorite marketing moment was being on a South by Southwest panel and getting to speak. I started after COVID, so getting to speak in front of a live audience and get that immediate feedback when we have a digital product was really rewarding. Yeah, I bet that would have been so cool.
• 0:57
  Question number three is what's your go-to business resource when it comes to like a newsletter or a book or a podcast? It's my boyfriend. Smart cookie. He's a founder too, and he's a little bit ahead of me and we just think the same way about business. And so it's really nice having a supportive partner that I can go to. And it's been all the crap before.
• 1:28
  Question number four is how do you win the day? What are your AM and PM rituals and habits that keep you feeling happy and motivated and successful?
• 1:37
  So I do this like moving meditation every morning called shake, rattle and roll. It's really cheesy. You just like shake around and like move your body. Okay. And I need that. I need that in the morning. And I drink a glass of kombucha. And then in the evening, I try to meditate every day. I don't always succeed. I'll be honest. But that's really what keeps my stress levels low.
• 2:03
  Like it just helps me process everything that happened, keeps my stress levels manageable, makes me calmer. I love it. I love that. Shake, rattle and roll. I'm going to look into that. That sounds fun. A fun way to start the day. It's really fun. What is your worst money mistake? That's a good one. Hiring the wrong people. That's a tough one. Yeah. An expensive one.
• 2:33
  Expensive one. Yeah. And last question, question number six, what is just a crazy story you can share good, bad or ugly from this journey in building this business? Yeah. It's funny because we're a porn company, so there should be like a million crazy stories. One, so one of the first films we did, the male actor was,
• 3:00
  could not get hard during the shoot. Oh my God. What do you do in that situation? First of all, I did like, I put all my own money into this. Like there were 10 people on set and it just was not happening. Shit. So we, we had to fake it. We just faked it. Um,
• 3:25
  You know, it just reminds me that like porn is acting and it ended up turning out looking really amazing. Wow. That is so interesting. What a crazy story. Thank you so much for sharing that with me and for sharing your journey. Whoa, there's so much there. That's so cool. I'm so excited to see how the business grows and, you know, be your cheerleader on the sidelines. Thank you so much for having me. It was really fun to talk to you.
• 4:00
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• 4:25
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• 4:47
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• 5:03
  Hey, it's Dune here. Thanks for listening to this amazing episode of the Female Startup Club podcast. If you're a fan of the show and want even more of the good stuff, I'd recommend checking out femalestartupclub.com where you can subscribe to our free newsletter. We send it out weekly covering female founder business news, insights and learnings in D2C, and interesting business resources.
• 5:27
  And if you're a founder building an e-commerce brand, you can join our private network of entrepreneurs called Hype Club at femalestartupclub.com forward slash Hype Club. We have guests from the show joining us for intimate Ask Me Anythings, expert workshops, and a group of totally amazing, like-minded women building the future of D2C brands.
• 5:50
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