Unstoppable | A Conversation With Change Makers

Co-founder of Rent the Runway, Jenny Fleiss, now leads a startup called Jetblack. Today she talks about innovation, tips for entrepreneurs, and more. "Entrepreneurship is like highs and lows. I think it is like flying a plane at low altitude. It is like the highs are really high and the lows are really low and it feels like your going to crash. It is great having a co-founder because there are different moments during then when you need to pick each other up.” - Jenny Fleiss. Learn more about this episode at karagoldin.com/19

Listen in to today's episode with Jessica Herrin, the founder of Stella and Dot, the multi-million dollar jewelry, bags, accessories, and clothing social selling company.  "You do not have expertise when you start. You get expertise over time with failure, with iteration, with tenacity.” - Jessica Herrin. Learn more about this episode at karagoldin.com/18

Marion Nestle’s research and writings have examined a lot of the scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choices, obesity, and food safety. "Food is one of life’s greatest pleasures and people should be enjoying it and eating what they love. It makes me really sad that people are in such pain and it makes me angry with the food industry for deliberately confusing people.” - Marion Nestle. Learn more at karagoldin.com/17

The blowout queen and founder of Drybar, Alli Webb, joins me on today’s episode of Unstoppable to talk about building her incredible hair enterprise. "If Drybar didn’t work, no one was going to die, the world wasn’t going to end, and I would’ve figured something else out. I think you have to have that mentality to not feel afraid to take that big leap.” - Alli Webb. Learn more about this episode at karagoldin.com/16

Starting as a line cook in a kitchen in L.A., Ellen Bennett came up with a great idea that has turned into multimillion dollar brand, Hedley & Bennett. "It is just like listening to your customers in the restaurant world and realizing they are just really functional. Everything they do is so smart and efficient and better. So then we take that and put it into our direct to consumer channels too.” - Ellen Bennett. Learn more about this episode at karagoldin.com/15

As a young serial entrepreneur Jake Kassan raised $30,000 on Indiegogo in one day! Today he talks about how he did that and co-founded MVMT Watches. "I think that the evolution of a brand takes time, and you learn things by testing and failing. That’s how I became and entrepreneur to begin with.” - Jake Kassan. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/14

Listen in as Elie Ayrouth talks about how he started Foodbeast from his college dorm room, how he's landed major brand deals, and more on today’s show. "I don’t really have a passion to cook. But I knew that there were people that liked food but didn’t need all the pretentiousness around it, and I wanted to fill that gap.” - Elie Ayrouth. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/13

New York City based lifestyle and portrait photographer, Jeremy Cohen, talks about how his creativity caught the attention of major brands on today's show. “The most helpful thing is being passionate about it. I genuinely love photography, so that alone just makes this all easier. It makes it easy to do this. If you love it, you can make it happen.” - Jeremy Cohen. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/12

On today’s episode, Yuval Rechter of First Media joins me to talk about growing, scaling, and hiring as the fastest-growing digital publishing company. "I think that it is super important to create the culture of how you see yourself in the organization that you built. So I see First Media as my family.” - Yuval Rechter. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/11

On today’s episode, Youtuber, content producer, and influencer, Sara Dietschy, joins me to talk about how she became a creative entrepreneur. As she merges creativity and technology, Sara has over 350,000 subscribers on her self-titled YouTube channel where she creates and uploads docu-series, tech reviews, and vlogs. "If I could be a part of helping people to live their creative life and to get from point A to point B in the fastest way possible, then I want to be a part of that. So that is what I try to do on my channel.” - Sara Dietschy. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/10

Join me as we kick off the season with the multi-platinum chart-topping recording artist, Jay Sean and his wife, manager, business partner, and former recording artist Thara. As artists and entrepreneurs, the pair tells us all about what it is like to be a globally recognized icon and more. “Do what you do and love it, but just know that it could be tough.” - Jay Sean. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/09

Tune in as Randi Zuckerberg shares about her passion for opera, how she’s dealt with rejection, the importance of asking for what you want, her experience in Silicon Valley and more on today's episode of Unstoppable. “The first rule of entrepreneurship is that there are no rules, right?” - Randi Zuckerberg. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/08

On today’s episode of Unstoppable, Lisa Sugar, founder and President of PopSugar, joins me to talk about how the entertainment blog she innocently started writing when she was in her twenties turned into a multi-million dollar media company. “When I had started, a lot of the competitors and other folks who had started around the same time had their names as their website, but I was like ‘this has to be bigger than me’.” - Lisa Sugar Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/07

Amy Williams, my friend and incredibly successful CEO of Citizens of Humanity, joins me on today's episode to talk about how she became an “accidental entrepreneur”. Listen in to hear more about her entrepreneurial journey, career in fashion, perspective on advertising, tips for raising venture capital and more. “I learned that I didn’t need to be the author of every idea and I got great joy in bringing out over time the best in other people, and that was really really gratifying.” - Amy Williams. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/06

Investigative journalist, Nina Teicholz, joins me on today’s episode to talk about the truth about fats and how we’ve been fooled by nutrition science. Nina is the author of the international and New York Times bestselling book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. “For the first two years of writing, I thought I was writing a book on trans fats so I did nothing but talk to hundreds of vegetable oil executive. It became clear to me how much they did steer science, going back to the ‘40s.” - Nina Teicholz Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/05

Darya Rose is the author of Foodist and the creator of the blog Summer Tomato. She writes about food, health, science, and how to overcome chronic dieting. “The vast majority of the causes of misery in the old age disease world are things that are massively improved if you eat more vegetables, eat less junk food, and exercise.” - Darya Rose. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/04

Melissa Hartwig is the co-founder of The Whole30 Program. Today, she talks with Kara Goldin about healthy living and how she created the Whole30 company. “The Whole30 is all about getting you back in touch with your body’s natural regulatory mechanism and re-establishing a healthy relationship with food.” - Melissa Hartwig. Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/03    

Dr. T. Colin Campbell is the author of The China Study and an Endowed Chair at Cornell University. Kara Goldin discusses nutrition with him on today's show. "We can use the kind of nutrition I'm talking about, not only to prevent future disease. Problems like heart disease, and cancer, and diabetes, and that sort of thing. But it actually can be used to treat people with existing disease now." - Dr. T. Colin Campbell Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable at www.karagoldin.com/02

Learn from Dr. Robert Lustig about what sweet drinks are doing to our bodies and minds, as well as new research about the growing diabetes pandemic. "It turns out that stress is a primary, possibly the seminal driver of visceral fat." - Dr. Robert Lustig Learn more about this episode of Unstoppable with Kara Goldin at www.karagoldin.com.