
182. Bringing Clean & Inclusive Beauty into the Mainstream with Nyakio Greico #FabulousFriends
Nyakio Greico is an entrepreneur with two successful businesses to her name: clean beauty brand Nyakio, and ecommerce discovery platform Thirteen Lune. We talk about creating a beauty platform for all, starting a paradigm shift towards inclusion, and when it may be better for your business not to grow.
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Show Notes
Nyakio Greico is an entrepreneur with two successful businesses to her name. The first is Nyakio, a green and clean beauty brand, launched in 2002, and now carried nationwide at Target.com. And the other is Thirteen Lune, an ecommerce platform she co-founded in 2020, centered around inclusion, discovering, and elevating Black and Brown-founded brands. We talk about creating a beauty platform for all, starting a paradigm shift towards inclusion, and when it may be better for your business not to grow.
You will learn about...
- How Nyakio came up with the idea for Nyakio Beauty and Thirteen Lune
- How creating a level playing field can help combat systemic racism
- How to be featured by Thirteen Lune
- Raising capital as a Black woman
- The importance of allyship
- How small brands break through the noise
- Sharing our failures and how we grow from them
Resources:
- thirteenlune.com
- Instagram: @nyakio and @thirteenlune
- Listen: The Beauty Vanguard
- timeshifter.com
- ctzncosmetics.com
- Buttah Vitamin C Serum
- BeautyStat Vitamin C Serum
- Ceylon
- Vernon François
- Bomba Curls
- Shaz & Kiks
- Mississippi Mud Mask by Mary Louise
Connect with Kelly:
- kellyleveque.com
- Instagram: @bewellbykelly
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly
Be Well By Kelly is produced and published by Crate Media.
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