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Bootstrapped Beauty Entrepreneurship: Building a Clean Beauty Brand with Gabrielle Melchionda
In this episode of The Growth Class, host Phil Masiello interviews Gabrielle Melchionda, founder of Mad Gab’s, a pioneering natural and organic beauty brand.
Gabrielle shares how she built a business from a homemade lip balm recipe in her mother’s kitchen into a nationally recognized brand featured on QVC and in publications like Vogue, eventually securing retail partnerships with major retailers. She explains the realities of bootstrapped entrepreneurship, the importance of building relationships with retailers and industry mentors, and how persistence helped her navigate business setbacks…
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