Monique Rodriguez

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1,123 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Mar

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Aspire with Emma Grede · From a Basement to a Billion Dollar Brand: The Greatest Founder Story You Never Heard · 26 Mar 2026 podcast

So I'm thinking the price was maybe $3 per bottle at that time.

That was doable for me.

And they were willing to work with me.

So like, I don't know if you, do you remember Laoway?

We had Laoway, you know, back in the day, my mom would go to the store and put her- Did you put it on Laoway?

Yeah.

Shut up.

That's amazing.

So like I would order my products of what I wanted to produce and formulate.

I will make a payment and then we will make payment arrangements with them and say, OK, well, you know, we get our paychecks on such and such day in two weeks.

We're going to pay the remaining balance and then you'll ship us the order.

So it was kind of like everything was on a low way, even down to the website designer, the graphic designer that we were working with.

We had to pay, you know, once we got paid and then pay balances, like when we got our paychecks in the next two weeks.

So it was literally like hand to mouth.

I would say there are a couple of defining moments.

One defining moment was the day that we launched, which was May 23rd, 2014.

We literally sold out of every product that we had.

And I probably had maybe like a hundred bottles.

And I thought that inventory amount would last us for a good six months, sold out of everything immediately.

So that's when I knew that I was onto something.

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