Ceramics artist and business owner Gina DeSantis has built a career around handmade work while navigating wholesale, retail, staffing, pricing, and production limits. She explains why creative businesses often need a different definition of scale, one that protects craftsmanship while still creating room for sustainable growth.

Ceramics artist and business owner Gina DeSantis has built a career around handmade work while navigating wholesale, retail, staffing, pricing, and production limits. She explains why creative businesses often need a different definition of scale, one that protects craftsmanship while still creating room for sustainable growth.

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Grit Daily Startup Show podcast explores the world of entrepreneurship, founders, and CEOs to talk scaleups and startups, from conception and funding to exits. Interviews run across all industries, with entrepreneurs sharing their best decisions, mistakes to avoid, and wildest entrepreneurial stories. With single-guest entrepreneur and multi-guest formats.

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Gina DeSantis on Building a Creative Business Without Scaling Away the Craft

Ideal Siding CEO Alex Filipuk explains why great ideas and strategy are not enough to build a successful company. Drawing on his journey from serial entrepreneur to franchisor, he shares why execution, complementary teams, and patient growth turn ambitious visions into scalable businesses.

Ideal Siding CEO Alex Filipuk explains why great ideas and strategy are not enough to build a successful company. Drawing on his journey from serial entrepreneur to franchisor, he shares why execution, complementary teams, and patient growth turn ambitious visions into scalable businesses.

Alex Filipuk on Why Visionaries Need Operators to Build Scalable Businesses

Rei Cosmetics founder Nami Soejima saw a simple gap in the beauty market: American consumers were becoming obsessed with Japanese cosmetics, yet many of Japan’s most trusted brands were still difficult to buy in the U.S. She shares how she turned that frustration into a growing retail business, navigated tariffs and cross-border logistics, and learned that patience and trust are essential when doing business with Japanese companies.

Website: https://www.reicosmetics.com/

Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube

Anime NYC (August 20-23rd, Javits Center): Booth #5632 https://www.reicosmetics.com/blogs/news/rei-cosmetics-at-anime-nyc-2026

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https://maven.com/ecomm-biz-school/learn-tiktok-ecommerce-in-2-hours

Rei Cosmetics founder Nami Soejima saw a simple gap in the beauty market: American consumers were becoming obsessed with Japanese cosmetics, yet many of Japan&rsquo;s most trusted brands were still difficult to buy in the U.S. She shares how she turned that frustration into a growing retail business, navigated tariffs and cross-border logistics, and learned that patience and trust are essential when doing business with Japanese companies.
Website: https://www.reicosmetics.com/
Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube
Anime NYC (August 20-23rd, Javits Center): Booth #5632 https://www.reicosmetics.com/blogs/news/rei-cosmetics-at-anime-nyc-2026
Harness the Full TikTok Shop eCommerce Suite (Sept 15th) https://maven.com/ecomm-biz-school/learn-tiktok-ecommerce-in-2-hours

How Rei Cosmetics Is Bringing Japan’s Best-Kept Beauty Brands to the U.S.

Candie Zar believes exercise is more than a workout—it's the foundation for confidence, longevity, and showing up as your best self. The founder of SWEATWITHCANDIE shares how discipline, community, and consistency can transform not only your body but every area of your life.

Candie Zar believes exercise is more than a workout&mdash;it's the foundation for confidence, longevity, and showing up as your best self. The founder of SWEATWITHCANDIE shares how discipline, community, and consistency can transform not only your body but every area of your life.

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