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Podcast: Behind Her Empire
Episode: #368: How This Founder Left a 26-Year Career, Used Her Kids’ College Fund & Built Bogg Bag Into a $100M Household Brand - Kim Vaccarella
Description: Kim Vaccarella is the founder and CEO of Bogg Bag, the durable, washable, and colorful tote designed to carry it all with ease, from beach days to everyday adventures.Kim’s journey to building Bogg Bag was anything but linear. A mom of two with a full-time job, she sketched the idea for a sturdier beach tote after one too many sandy, soggy days at the shore. Turning that sketch into reality meant dipping into her children’s college savings, navigating failed prototypes, and surviving a shipment disaster that nearly sank the company. She pitched the conc...