Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard (2020)

Hey, it's Guy here. So you know, we ask a lot of our guests on how I built this about the moment. You know, when did they have an idea for something big, or when did they know they have the talent to rise to the top? Well recently I talked about this with Bjork. who told me about the time when she first understood that she had a unique singing voice. She was a kid in a pretty remote town in Iceland, and she'd sing at the top of her lungs walking in the woods on her way to school. But it took her a long time to convince herself that it was a voice to be shared with the world. Check out my conversation with Bjork on my other podcast. It's called The Great Creators. Just search for the Great Creators with Guy Raz wherever you listen to podcasts. or go to the great creators dot com.

Okay, onto the show. And this week we're rerunning an interview from twenty twenty with Holly Thaggard, who set out to create a sunscreen that people would actually want to slather on their faces every day. Hope you enjoy. I had created these sunscreen swipes and apparently um the swipes were a huge hit. So I would go around to stores during that period and uh the swipes were always gone. They were just wiped off the shelf. But the problem was I knew that my sales couldn't be great if there were no products on the shelf. And so I'd go into as many stores as I could with swipes in my bag and literally like stock the shelves.

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