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Podcast: Earn Your Happy
Episode: How Melinda Maria Spigel Scaled Her Jewelry Brand From $1,500 to $20M (No Hype, Just Strategy)
Description: Good news, you don’t have to go viral to have a 1M+ dollar business. In this episode, I sit down with Melinda Maria Spigel, founder of Melinda Maria Jewelry, to talk about why brand equity matters more than a “Taylor Swift moment”, how to use data without losing creativity, and the reality of being a founder for 20 years. We dive into her scrappy beginnings at a Starbucks card table, the "brutal" middle years of scaling, and the pivotal decision to step down as CEO to protect her zone of genius. Tune in to learn how to build a busine...