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Small Business Bestie
20: Building Bestie Co.: Amanda Mia and the Organic Care Revolution
Ever wondered how to turn a personal necessity into a thriving business? Join us on the Small Business Bestie podcast as we sit down with Amanda Miah, the trailblazing founder of Bestie Co., a subscription service revolutionizing organic menstrual care. Amanda shares the whirlwind journey from an initial idea to a successful soft launch within just a year. We'll explore the indispensable role her co-founder played in building a robust team and Amanda’s plans to bolster strategy and marketing efforts. Notably, Bestie Co. collaborates with WorkWell Industries, creating vital employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities, making their business not just profitable, but purpose-driven.
Facing stringent FDA regulations for menstrual products can be daunting, but Amanda's story underscores the power of a "fail fast, fail often" mentality. Listen as she recounts the critical pivot from eco-friendly loose products to compliant packaged ones, and the intricate dance of managing inventory and logistics with third-party providers. We also touch on Amanda's forward-thinking approach to customer support, including potential chatbot integration to foster a supportive and interactive community space.
Starting a business around personalized care packages comes with its own set of joys and challenges. Amanda opens up about the importance of creating a stigma-free zone for discussing periods and bodies, and the fun involved in curating high-quality, nutritious snacks and self-care products. Hear her valuable advice on conducting market research and competitor analysis to identify unique value propositions. Plus, enjoy a hilarious anecdote about the unexpected pitfalls of buying a blacklisted domain name, and laugh along as we share stories of unexpected male enthusiasm for Bestie Co.’s offerings. Tune in for a perfect blend of insightful business tips and light-hearted moments that’ll leave you inspired and entertained.
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Welcome to the Small Business Bestie podcast, where we celebrate the journey of women entrepreneurs in the heart of Central Kentucky and beyond. I'm your host, Michelle, and my mission is to create a podcast and community for us. Each week, join us as we sit down with a different small business bestie to dive deep into their stories, sharing the highs, the lows and everything in between. We will meet friends who are brand new in business, veterans in business and maybe even the occasional dreamer. So grab your favorite coffee or cocktail, get cozy and let's meet this week's small business bestie Today. Today, I have a true bestie to chat with and I'm going to just let her take the floor to tell you guys all about herself and her business, so that you understand why I say she is a true bestie.
Amanda:So go ahead, I'm Amanda Mia, founder of Bestie Co. And Bestie Co is a period care brand that offers a subscription service that syncs with your menstrual cycle, and we do all things menstrual care. So organic pads, organic tampons. We do a Bestie box, which includes self-care items and snacks to give you a special treat during your time of the month.
Michelle:I love it so much. So Amanda and I met at a Fibercross event several months ago at this point, and I was just absolutely floored by not only her brand name because I mean, how could I not be? But also her presentation was just so spot on. In fact, I believe she won the audience choice for the evening. It was just a really fascinating concept and I was so inspired by her so I immediately begged her to come and be on the podcast with us, and I do want to give just a quick disclaimer before we get too far into the conversation that we're recording on site, away from our normal studio, if you will. So if you hear some background noise, that's why. But I think that Amanda's message is going to be so powerful that we're just going to look right past all of that distracting background noise and continue our conversation, and I hope you guys will hang on with us. So when did you start, bestie Co?
Amanda:Okay.
Amanda:So the idea came about last spring and I immediately began researching if there was a product similar out there and just trying to find out okay, is this idea viable, how will we execute this?
Amanda:And so I started that last spring and that went into like an immediate rollout of me inviting a co-founder, and so I called up my. It was actually my best friend's husband, who is a senior software engineer, and I pitched him on this idea that I wanted to incorporate an e-commerce site that included a period tracker so that women could go and purchase the products that they needed for their period but also ensure that it times with their menstrual cycle so that they can get their products exactly when they need it and never be caught off guard. And so he agreed and we started building out the platform and he was building the app and within a couple of months we were rolling out a pilot test. And so actually at this time last year we were piloting the concept with some gals here in Louisville and that's really how we got our start. We kind of have we've just gone full fledged, like full force, into this rolled that pilot into a soft launch in August. And so here we are, in June and we're about to go to market with Bestie.
Michelle:I am just so impressed by all of that. I love when you have an idea and you just go full force and jump right in with both feet. I think that that's obviously super brave. Jump right in with both feet, I think that that's obviously super brave. But also I just know that when entrepreneurs are willing to do something like that, you know that their heart and their soul is behind what they're doing. It's not like a, you know, a half-baked idea that they had, that they were like I don't know. So I think that that's really awesome and I love that you guys have made so much progress in such a short period of time. So you mentioned that you have a co-founder. Are there other members of your team right now? Or kind of what does your team aspect look like?
Amanda:So right now I'm the only full-time person on the team, but I am looking to grow the team soon. It's a lot wearing all the hats. We call it. The CEO is the chief everything officer, so you're really doing everything. So, yeah, here soon. I'm looking to recruit someone who has a mind for strategy and marketing and growth.
Michelle:Okay, that's awesome. So your first move is going to be someone to help with strategy and marketing and then later down the line, looking for other opportunities. But as far as your production, or the actual assembly of the product, are you doing that in-house? Are you going to outsource that? What does that look like?
Amanda:So we are actually partnering with a local nonprofit and they're called WorkWell Industries. They're here in the West End of Louisville and really close to where I live actually, so it's nice because I can just pop over to their warehouse. But they have received all of our inventory and are going to be assembling our boxes for us. And I love WorkWell because they employ people who have disabilities or barriers into the workforce. So it's really great because we have that element of community building built into our business model.
Michelle:I love that. I think one of the other things that I wanted to talk to you about that I'm really excited because you have such a unique perspective is creative fundraising. So I mentioned kind of in the introduction that you had participated in Fivercross. So if you wouldn't mind, tell everyone what Fivercross is and then kind of you know how you participated in that Sure.
Amanda:So Fivercross is a pitch competition where you are just on a platform with five other companies to pitch your company and hopefully win the grand prize, and it's just a little bit of capital, but it's also great because it builds awareness about your brand or what you're doing, and so it was awesome participating in that. It wasn't my first pitch competition, though I had done previously Render. First pitch competition, though I had done previously Render, which is a venture capital firm here in Louisville, and so we did the Render competition last summer and actually ended up winning that, and so we were selected one of eight companies. It was great because it gave us that really early capital we needed to actually build out our inventory, yeah.
Michelle:I love that. I had never even heard of a pitch competition. I mean, I had watched Shark Tank because I'm an entrepreneurial junkie, but back in Oklahoma, to my knowledge, there's no one doing things like this in the community that I was involved in, and so when we got to Lexington and someone told me about that, it was actually our banker. When we opened our first business checking account, you know, our business banker was like have you ever heard of Fivercross? Our first business checking account, you know, our business banker was like have you ever heard of Fiverr Cross? And so we've been following it ever since, and it was my first introduction to pitch competitions. So I love that idea of like getting really creative with the ways that you're fundraising. So, other than pitch competitions, are there other avenues that you have tried that are kind of a little more outside the box for capital or fundraising, yep?
Amanda:So I am taking the route of, like, trying to get investors. So I do have an angel investor now and also we'll probably begin exploring more potential investment opportunities in that realm here shortly. Also, I've applied for a grant. I've applied for a couple of grants, but this one we'll find out this week if we get awarded the grant. So that's very exciting. And then also looking at launching a campaign through WeFunder, which is it's kind of like a Kickstarter, but it is where you're opening up a community round where people can invest in the company and they get ownership, and so that's like a really cool way to just invite people here, you know, in Louisville and Kentucky at large, or even wider than that, and people, if they love your idea and you know want to support they can get in really, really early and become an investor.
Michelle:Wow, that's called WeFunder. Wefunder Is it WeFundercom? Yes, I believe. So. That's really interesting. I love that idea. Okay, so coming back to like your products and services and how your idea kind of came about and everything you mentioned that you guys are doing menstrual care and you have options. So if a purchaser were to go on and you know what to do business with you, I just go in and select the items I want, or how does that work?
Amanda:So there's a couple of different ways you can do it. We have it kind of in three different categories where we have pre-made curated boxes. One of them is a first period kit and one is a PMS support kit, and so you'll be able to go in and see exactly what products come in those kits. And one is obviously tailored to younger girls who are getting their first period and the other is just for people who have very difficult periods and struggle with PMS. Yeah, we also do one-off products so we can, like go in. Any of our menstrual products can be purchased just as a single order. The same for some PMS support products. We do PMS gummies and a cramp relief roll-on. But then we have our subscription service, which is a little bit different because it's kind of like in the same vein of like a HelloFresh. It's a curated subscription service where the products change month to month in terms of the snacks and the self-care items, but the menstrual products that are personalized to your preferences do stay the same every month.
Michelle:I really like the subscription model, because I tend to like wait until the last minute and then I'm like, oh gosh, what am I going to do, you know? And my husband has to run to the store and he loves that, well, and that's so funny because that's kind of exactly how this all happened.
Amanda:To begin with, I was so bad at tracking my period and every time it would come and like it's a huge surprise, my husband would make fun of me. So like, babe, I started my period, can you go to the store? And he'd be like I love you so much, but how is this a shock? Like you've been having periods for like the last what 25 years, and so wait, 25, I don't know. I don't know what that ages me as if that's the right time.
Michelle:We'll say 10 years I started my period since I was 11.
Amanda:And so it's, you know, like it's been a major facet of my life for a very long time, so it really shouldn't be a shock. But you know how it is life gets busy and you just don't think about it and you're so busy, you know, with between work and taking care of the kids and dinners and just homework and all those things, and yeah, like I just it would not be the top of my mind or my priority, and so that's really what it came down to is. One day I was like asking my husband to get me nightpads and he came back with adult diapers because he just really didn't understand, know what the products were or what I needed. And I was like there, there has got to be a better way. It's like I can't do this again. So it's, the bestie was born.
Amanda:It was like, just, you need a period support pal to show up exactly when you need it. And that's with the subscription. That is really where the value is in is like it's so convenient because you don't have to think about it, it's one less thing to carry on your mental load. It's just like here's, it's going to show up, it's going to be there right when you need it, just like your best friend would be, you know.
Michelle:So one of the issues that I have is that I, like I'll buy a multi-pack and then all of the ones that I actually like to use are gone and I'm left with the ones that I don't want to use and I'll feel guilty to, like, replenish the whole multi-pack, because what I really just need is, you know, and so I end up with like a whole ton of things that I don't really want and oh, it's a bad, bad deal. So if I had a box that just showed up, that was like the right amount of all the things that I need to help me get through that month, and then it shows up again the next month. Chef's kiss.
Amanda:It would be amazing. I know I've done it before where you know you buy the big bulk, you go to Costco or whatever and you get it in bulk and then it like takes up all the space in your closet, and so that also is like was my thing. It's like how can I do this to where it's not going to like overtake my closet space or my, like, cabinet space in the bathroom? It's like we've got, you know, three of us sharing a bathroom, so we need every bit of space we can get.
Michelle:Yeah, and you know, buying in bulk is like a huge blessing for a lot, of, a lot of the time, but then you just learn to expect that it's going to be there and when you run out, you're like, how am I out? I always have this ginormous, you know, container of these things. So, yeah, it can be a tricky road to navigate, for sure, yeah. So, speaking of tricky roads to navigate, what, in your opinion? Starting an e-commerce business that has kind of a unique spin to begin with, what has been the trickiest thing for you to navigate as the ceo and wearer of all the hats?
Amanda:yeah, well, so it was a huge learning curve in terms of when it comes to menstrual products, they are actually classified as medical devices and so Wait what?
Amanda:Yep. So I had to do a ton of research and just ensure that we were meeting FDA regulations and whatever products that we did end up going with as our bestie brand of products followed the FDA guidelines, that everything was okay. So I, really, early on, I had to pivot, because what I really wanted to do was reduce the amount of packaging. I'm a very eco-cautious person and it's like, as I was building this out, I was always looking for products that would be eco-friendly, but because there are certain stipulations with FDA, we ended up having, instead of getting products that were loose, where we would just pack them in the box and, you know, send it off. We did have to get packaged menstrual products, which is, in the end, it's good, right, and you know it comes in cardboard boxes, so at least you know you can recycle those.
Amanda:Yeah, but so that was a huge learning curve is, like you know, just making sure that, when you're dealing with medical devices, that everything is above board and that you're compliant with all those things.
Amanda:And you know, just in terms of building.
Amanda:There's just so much to go into what the concept that we're trying to pull off of in terms of, like, the inventory that you need to keep and planning those things out and making sure that, like, as people come and subscribe, that you know we're just keeping on top of the operation side of things and the logistics and yeah, like I mean the list goes on.
Amanda:There's been so many things that we've stags, that we've run into, but one of the concepts, really early on, that we decided to adhere to is like knowing that when you're working as a startup, like you're going to fail in some regards, like you're going to do something, make a mistake, there'll be an error, and one of our mottos was like fail often, fail fast, because the you know, as soon as you get those mistakes out of the way, you learn Absolutely, and so it's a constant learning process. Like, oh, this didn't work, or this was like you know we could have made a better call here and got something that was more cost efficient, or you know, so it's just like failing really quick and fixing things, constantly fixing things.
Michelle:I love that so much I want to paint that on my wall. Fail fast and fail often. Oh wow, that's powerful because you're right. With every single mistake that you make or misstep that you make, you've learned something really valuable to take in the future with you and you're not going to make that mistake again. So it's out of the way it can move forward.
Amanda:Yeah, that's getting all the way early, early on, where it's not as big of a deal.
Michelle:Absolutely. So you mentioned that one of the things that you struggled with was like trying to figure out the inventory and kind of like your supply chain cycle, if you will. Did you find a solution in like a specific software solution, or you know kind of how did you learn to solve that, or are you still dealing with it?
Amanda:So I think, given the nature of what we're doing, it's going to be a consistent thing that we'll be up against unless we pivot and I've considered different ways that we may pivot just to make operations really smooth, especially since we are working with a third party, with WorkWell, and you know. So we just want to make it really as seamless as possible and make it simple so that we can execute well and have really really good customer service. Yeah, so you know, I think just in those terms it's like we're just figuring out. It's like the simplest thing that we can choose as we go, like in the making of the decisions is going to serve us well, because our whole goal is, like customer service, we just want our customers to be happy. So that's incredible.
Michelle:Are you going to have the chatbot in the app to help people navigate and figure it out?
Amanda:Yeah, those are things that we definitely want to add on as we go, and so I was in a conversation yesterday actually with one of the founders in the area and we were talking about that. It's like how can we build more of a community? I do love the idea of a chatbot so that it becomes you've got someone that makes it really clear, like where he's like I have a question, I don't know where to find this thing or how do I like change this order or whatever but also to making it just where it's like that community can happen in the app, so that you know it's like when you're having your period, you need an outlet, you need a place to talk to it, talk about it. That is a safe place to talk about it, and so it's kind of hard to do that in various settings, Like sometimes it's like I can't really tell my husband everything that I'm experiencing or maybe I could Do. I want to.
Amanda:Is the question? Probably not. He wouldn't understand. He empathizes but he wouldn't really really understand, and so like, yeah, just having a space where you can go with, like you know, if you need to vent and complain or whatever it is that you can do that or ask questions. I think that sometimes there's questions that we want to know about our periods, our bodies, and it can like I hate that it is like this that it can feel embarrassing to do it in a setting where it's like you know, like a public space or someone that you know like. But in a place where it's like you know like a public space or someone that you know like, but in a place where it's like you have the like anonymity of being online or whatever it's like oh, I can put this question out because no one will attach it to me and I don't have to feel like I hate the embarrassment of some of those things.
Michelle:I really love that idea, so I'm going to be very excited and interested to see how you roll that out or incorporate it into the app or the website to see that. So we've talked about some of the challenges that you've had. What are some of the things that you have found in business that you really thrive at or that you really enjoy, that you had no idea you were going to like or that you were going to need to like?
Amanda:I'm working on getting out of my shell and like putting my face more onto the brand itself and what we're doing, because I think people like to see that who the founder is, like the story behind the business. But one of the things that I really have enjoyed is the creativity and building out like what is this concept? How are we going to meet the needs of the customers? And also picking out the products. So, like, every snack that goes in the box has been tested by me. It's like one of the best perks about the job is tasting the snacks, for sure. And the self care products. Like there was a ton of research that went into like the products that we chose initially and so I had ordered a bunch of just like with face masks, exfoliators, like face creams.
Michelle:And because I wanted it to have really good skincare options, because, you know, I'm in my upper 30s and like skincare starts to matter when you get to be my age. I know we're on a podcast and y'all can't see this, but you would never guess this woman is in her upper 30s, so whatever she puts in the box, y'all better use it.
Amanda:Well, thank you, I appreciate that, I will take that. I will take that. But yeah, so, and that part was so fun and so like having all my friends come over and it's like, okay, test this, tell me what you think about this, do you like this one? And getting that kind of feedback as well has been fun of like. So, just yeah, like curating what's going in the box, that's like one of the favorite parts of the business.
Michelle:The curating of the snacks would definitely be my favorite, I'm certain of it. So, on the snacks, is there like a specific, like nutritional profile that you guys are kind of trying to stay towards, or is it more about like comforting for the receiver?
Amanda:It goes both ways. Okay, I do try to be like. I try to like source snacks that you're not going to find everywhere. Now some of them are, like, becoming more popular. Like we do the Lesser Evil popcorn. I try to source snacks that you're not going to find everywhere. Now some of them are becoming more popular. We do the Lesser Evil popcorn, which is organic popcorn. It's only got a couple of different ingredients and it's very clean.
Amanda:So we do look for snacks that have a good nutritional value. Some of them are more on the realm of. We are, you know, we are looking for like gluten free vegan. I've just found these little snack bars that are like nuts and flaxseed and dark chocolate and really, really yummy, that just you can't really get them in the stores. But then, you know, sometimes I have gone for like let's just do something with chocolate, like give me the chocolate, give me the caramel. It's like this is also something, something that's like you don't want to deprive your cravings. So we do these snacks. Oh, they're so good. It's like dulce de leche, like soft cookie. They're very, very good. So, yeah, I get excited about snacks.
Michelle:Yeah, me too, yeah for sure, give someone a piece of advice who has an idea that they want to start a business or they want to try a new venture, but they're on the fence about it. Do you have any advice for people in that position?
Amanda:That is a great question. So one would be just like do a lot of research beforehand, see if there are other companies out there who are doing something similar. Like there is a level of like competitor research and market research that goes into like taking idea and making sure that it is something that is viable, that you know that it'll work, that has not been done before and even things that could like. That's not to say that if you have an idea and you see something similar, it's like if there's a differentiator, if there's something that sets you apart, then you can use that. That can be your key value proposition. And so, yeah, tons of research, talking to people and so, like you know, having ideas, like test it with people.
Amanda:And I've read a book once. It was like do the mom test is like it or maybe it's not the mom test. I'd have to go like look that up to make sure which one it is. But, like when you are talking to people about an idea, like, go to people who aren't going to try to protect your feelings. You want honest, honest feedback on ideas and concepts. And sometimes it might like bruise the ego a little bit, but it's so valuable it's like you've really got to listen to people and understand, like, what is the problem and is this the right solution? And if you've got the right solution, then you can really make a business out of it absolutely the research aspect of like trying to find that key differentiator.
Michelle:It's easier to find that when you think of it in am I going to be able to do it faster? Am I going to be able to do it better, or am I going to be able to do it faster? Am I going to be able to do it better or am I going to be able to do it cheaper? Because that's what the consumer is looking for. And so if you find someone who's already doing that thing, like you have to find out can I do it better, faster or cheaper? And if so, then you might have something. Yeah, yeah, for sure, absolutely Okay. So any words of caution oh, that is a good one. Like any pitfalls that you know of that, like maybe you should steer clear of this, or like really think through that, okay, so this was one of the errors, mistakes that we ran into early on and no one tells you this.
Amanda:So here I am, I am spilling the tea on this. So you know, we were coming up with the idea for Bestie and, like you know, as we were building out the website and everything, and we had picked our domain and it was going to be bestieboxcom, and so we bought the domain and we were like we built out the website, everything was linking up, we were running some like social media ads and putting a little bit of money behind that to get some traffic. And there were issues that we were running into where people were coming back to me and saying, like I can't get on your site, I'm getting like a security issue, what's the deal? And this happened for a couple months. Like some people would have issues like like visiting the site and then others would have no problem. So we couldn't figure it out and I was asking the CTO like how? Like what's what's the deal? What's going on?
Amanda:And so we started to really dig into the problem to understand what people were experiencing when they were having this issue, and come to find out whoever owned that domain before we bought that was using it for nefarious purposes, which has been like running autobots and stuff like that, and it had been blacklisted by all these antivirus software companies, and so that's why people were getting these security flags and not being able to go onto our site, even though what we were doing we were legit business, like we weren't doing anything sketchy. So I ended up having to contact all of these antivirus software companies, emailing them saying like, hey, we're getting a false positive, can you remove the flag? And we did get everything sorted out. We ended up changing the domain anyway, just to play it safe. But, yeah, that was a huge error that we were really glad we figured that out very early on, absolutely. So, yeah, do a history search on whatever domain that you want to purchase. Avoid that, avoid that pitfall.
Michelle:I have just been schooled. I had no idea that that was a thing, and I'm so glad to know now because I will know how to help people if they run into that in the future. Wow, that's really crazy. So were the antivirus software companies. Were they pretty quick to remove it once you notified them that it was a false positive?
Amanda:Yep, yeah, so they were really good about getting it sorted out. For us, it was finding out how to get in contact with some of these companies. That was also very difficult, but Reddit is your friend. So I think I like Googled on Reddit, like the issue that I was having and like someone had made a post because they had experienced the exact same thing, and so that's how we found out. It's like okay, this is how we can get in touch with all these companies.
Michelle:Wow, that's. I mean. That just blows my mind that that's even a thing that you could sell a website that's been blacklisted. You know, you would think that there's somebody out there like looking out for the consumer, you know the website domain purchaser and saying like you don't want to buy that one that's tainted, oh man, well, I'm glad that you guys got through that. So what's the new domain? So it's heybestiecom.
Amanda:Yep, and that is bestie without the E, so B-E-S-T-Icom.
Michelle:I love it. Okay, the last thing I have for you. I would really like to leave with a little bit of humor, because we've talked about all the things that we're not supposed to talk about in public. But is there any like silly story, funny story that has evolved from you trying to talk to maybe someone of the other gender about the project that you're working on, the business that you're running or anything like that? Or has everybody just been like super, like cool and accepting?
Amanda:Yeah, for the most part, I have been pleasantly surprised by how men have responded to Bestie. Like they get so excited about this and I think for a lot of them who are the husbands who have done those trips, going to the store like this is amazing. I never have to like go to the store again, like it's like the lifesaver that they didn't know they needed. So, yes, been very pleasantly surprised and to like another funny story, that is a little bit of a different realm. So my CTO bless him. He is always up for whatever I propose. He's like okay, yeah, bless him, he is always up for whatever I propose. He's like okay, yeah, like he's just very nonchalant and doesn't care.
Amanda:So I actually have found a uterus costume on Amazon and it is. It is like fabulous. It is pink in sequins and sparkly. It looks like a big heart kind of, but it also has like the arms with the fallopian tubes and it's spectacular. But I actually had him put this costume on and we went down to the waterfront park and, um, I had him like on his skateboard just like going and doing all these like skateboarding tricks with the uterus costume on and it was like one of the highlights of the whole thing. Do you have a video? I do, yes, you can see it. It is on TikTok. We do have a TikTok channel and it is there. So, yeah, that was amazing.
Michelle:Okay, I'm going to need you to send me the TikTok link and then I'll put it in the show notes so everyone can see the skateboarding uterus yeah, that is incredible, do you still?
Amanda:have the costume. Oh yeah, oh, of course, I actually wore it to a Galentine's event as well. So you know it's multi-use costume, right there.
Michelle:I mean, I can't wait to figure out an event I can invite you to where you can wear the uterus, that's right, like I was talking to someone.
Amanda:I was like, oh no, I'm going to get a reputation as the uterus girl. It's like you know, there could be worse things.
Michelle:So that's true. I mean, you're wearing the uterus for a good cause, yeah, that's right. Trying to uplift, you know, menstrual awareness. That's right. Yeah, I love that. Well, I mean, I don't know a better way to end our conversation. I appreciate you so much. You've been so patient as we kind of try to figure out our schedules to get together, patient as we kind of try to figure out our schedules to get together, and Amanda is actually going to take me to my first event here in Louisville, so I'll report back and let you guys know how that goes, because I've been meaning to get to Louisville for quite some time. So, thank you so much for inviting me over and having this conversation. And is there anything at all that you'd like to leave our guests with?
Amanda:Come visit us, follow us on social media. We've got an Instagram. It is bestiebox, so same as the original domain that we had bought, but that one at least isn't blacklisted. So, yeah, you can come catch us there.
Michelle:Okay, so Instagram. You said TikTok, are you on Facebook at all we?
Amanda:are on Facebook. Okay, and it's heybestie on Facebook and it's heybestie on Facebook. So I know it's widely confusing. Come to our website and you can find all the links to our social media.
Michelle:Well, I'll post all of those in the show notes when we drop man, I'm just super excited for you. I hope that everybody that hears this becomes a huge fan of you and what you're doing as well, and I wish you all the luck in the world.
Amanda:Yeah well, thanks so much for having me, it's been such a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me, it's been such a pleasure. Thanks so much Bye.
Michelle:Bye. Well, that's it, friends. Before we go, just a little reminder that I'm your host, michelle, and I'm the proud co-owner of Cultivate Accounting, where we help small businesses with accounting, and I help besties like you go from idea to launch and beyond with personalized small business coaching. No matter what phase of the journey you're in, I'm here to cheer you on every step of the way. Connect with me on Facebook at michellesmock.520. New episodes of the Small Business Bestie podcast drop each week, so hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. Do you want to be a bestie on the show? Subscribe button so you never miss an episode. Do you want to be a bestie on the show? We'd love to hear from you. Just head over to smallbusinessbestiepodcom to submit your guest request. Until next time, keep dreaming, keep going and remember. Do it even when you're scared. Thanks for hanging out with us.