The global beauty industry is a multi-billion dollar market, projected to reach over $677 billion by 2025, with skincare leading at 40%. How do you break into this billion dollar industry without big money or big investors? In today's episode, we talk with Flavia Zhamo, who pulls the curtain back on how beauty brands make it to the shelves and fighting founder burnout.

Flavia Zhamo is the founder of Everyday Chemist, a boutique skincare brand, and EC Studios, a cosmetic R&D lab. With a background in cosmetic chemistry and startup strategy, Flavia blends science, storytelling, and sustainability to develop high-performance beauty products. She’s now building Noun, an AI-powered platform revolutionizing how consumer products are developed and manufactured democratizing access to top-tier labs, suppliers, and manufacturers for indie brands and global companies alike.

In today's episode, we learn how Eitan Rachlis connects companies with the top 1% of talent in tech, finance and the nonprofit sectors across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. With over 15 years of experience in recruitment, Eitan specializes in placing the top 1% of talent in high-demand engineering and tech fields. His expertise covers robotics, software, engineering, cybersecurity, and IT serving startups, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions and the non-for-profit sectors.

He launched Telescope Recruitment to redefine elite hiring, combining deep industry knowledge with a tailored approach to connect organizations with transformative professionals. Known for precision in matching niche skill sets, he's built a reputation for solving complex hiring challenges where excellence is non-negotiable.

To learn more visit: https://telescope-recruitment.com

In today's episode, we learn how Latchmi Raghunanan used her background in product development and public sector leadership, to make fertility treatment more compassionate, accessible, and pain-free. Entrepreneurs will learn the trials and triumphs of bringing med-tech to market.

Maman Biomedical is developing the world’s first needle-free microneedle patch for fertility treatment. The flagship product, Maman Patch, will deliver sustained-release hormones through dissolvable microneedles - delivering the same drugs, with fewer risks, and none of the needle trauma. Maman's approach reduces pain, improves compliance, and helps patients feel more in control of their reproductive care.

For more information, visit mamanbiomedical.ca

Alicia Vianga turned 19 years of working in the hospitality industry into an innovative retail business and empowering non-profit supporting breast cancer survivors.

In 2005, she founded Premier Jour, a boutique that provides customers with unique shopping experience as well as certified bra and breast prosthesis fittings. Alicia worked with a major hospital in Toronto on the development of an official Bra and Breast Prosthesis Fitting Guide.

This work inspired Alicia to create after BREAST CANCER in 2012 a charitable organization focused on ensuring financially strained survivors of breast cancer have access to the necessities they need. Under Alicia’s leadership, the organization involves over 300 volunteers and interns and has helped support 5000 women to date.

In this episode, we learn how creating a non-profit rooted in profit and how the path of politics intersect.

To learn more, visit www.afterbreastcancer.ca

In today’s episode we learn how Tanya Hayles turned a Facebook group of 8 friends into a million dollar global brand that consults with the federal government and billion dollar organizations.

Tanya is an award-winning event consultant and director of the ioe agency who lives at the intersection of culture, sports, tech and community. She helps brands translate culture into connection and converts community into consumers.

She is also the founder and board chair of Black Moms Connection, an online global village of 50,000 with chapters in Asia, Africa and across North America and a national non-profit organization providing culturally relevant tools and resources.

Find out more at www.blackmomsconnection.com and instagram.com/blackmomsconnection.