Susan Griffin-Black, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products & FemTech
We are gliding into June with a woman who embodies our ethos at Meant For It. Susan Griffin-Black has made a series of intentional choices to work and live by her values. When you listen to the podcast, you will hear Susan share her story and how she built @eoproducts an ethical, values based consumer product business with manufacturing based out of Marin County, California. For those who are familiar with EO Products, when you see that blue bottle, you know are getting something that will make your senses smile.
Listen here to the full episode with Susan Griffin-Black
"I've had a Buddhist spiritual practice for 30 years. This is, I don't care what all of the external voices are saying, but if I go down this path, it's just not aligned with my values."
"Our premise was we wanted to create a company that we would want to work for. And so what does that look like?
"Essential oils are like very, very distilled flowers and plants and bark and, you know, all sorts of plant material, but they have so much vitality."
“You just have to collectively aim for the highest good for the most amount of people. Always, always, always."
Listen here to the full episode with Delphine O’Rourke
If you missed our interview with Delphine O’Rourke, download it today to hear why you should be paying more attention to FemTech.
When you invest in or support FemTech, your contributions help the market develop innovations that address issues like osteoporosis, menopause, fertility and many more opportunities that will help women live better and longer lives.. According to Market.us, the Global FemTech Market size is projected to surpass around USD 127.1 Billion by 2033! If you aren’t sold, consider this - why has the dreaded speculum used in annual ob-gyn exams not been updated since the 1800’s?!
As a Fund Partner at Portfolia, Delphine is part of a team that decides what start-ups to invest in. We discuss how you can also join a Portfolia fund with a minimum $10k if you are an accredited investor.
Notable Quotes from Delphine:
"We need to move medicine for women out of the 1900’s, 1800’s into modern medicine."
"We make 92% of consumer decisions, 82% of healthcare decisions."
"Shifting the contraceptive burden is highly impactful and that's what we look for."
"We want to make our money work for us and it's just sitting in a checking account. The financial gap, the pay gap, will just continue and compound."
Must-Listen Podcast Recommendations from us:
Bay Area local Heidi Kuhn, founder of the global non-profit Roots of Peace is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for 2024. We love Heidi and are thrilled her non profit will get more exposure to remove landmines.
Listen to our podcast with Heidi here from 2020
From Foster Care to Cambridge with Ron Henderson on the Coleman Hughes Podcast
Ron Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, and livd in ten different foster homes in California experiencing divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence. Today, he has a military career, an undergraduate education from Yale, a PhD from Cambridge and is the author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. You do not want to miss his thoughts on how we help other kids and families in the US.
Winston Marshall, the Truth About Iran
This should be required listening for every US citizen!
Summer Book Recs:
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
“The book is a murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel.” - NYT
The setting of the book is in Chicken Hill, a neighborhood in Pottstown, Pennsylvania with primarily Jewish and Black residents.
It is unlike any other book we have read and this NYT article says it best, “But McBride’s story is not to be rushed; he wants to show you the whole world. He wants to build this community and display its full constellation of characters, all of whom orbit around one another with different gravities, pushing and pulling the story in different directions. The skeleton at the novel’s start is almost forgotten as the story lives in the town’s past, patiently braiding a tale of this large cast as we make our way back to those promised bones.”
Summer Essentials
Finally, some summer days are so close we can taste the salt and sand ! PS - Our favorite sunscreens this year are Supergoop and all the products from Sun Bun, especially Sun Bun Glow.
Here is a round-up of fantastic AI tools that will save you dozens of hours and 3x-5x your productivity, AI is moving damn fast so, pick a tool on this list and see how it changes your day. We would love to hear about your experiences with any one of these!
Check out a round-up of 10 Best AI tools for business
Wise Words
“Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often.” - Mark Twain
Interesting links from the week:
We Have Been Subverted from The Free Press
How to be an active learner from "Former Yum Brands CEO: How active learning took me from 30 trailer parks to the helm of a $32 billion global corporation” - Fortune
And now, some Good news!
This antibacterial stainless steel could stop the super-bacteria plague
New Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s