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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to I'm Too Busy, an interview based show hosted
by a talented makeup artist, Christina Black. Christina offers viewers
a unique blend of personal stories, inspiring journeys, and practical
beauty tips. Join the conversation as Christina features successful individuals
from various industries who share their insights on health, wellness, makeup,

(00:27):
and the keys to their success. So now please welcome
the host of I'm Too Busy, Christina Flack.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hello, and welcome to another episode of I'm Too Busy,
where we dive into the lives of an inspiring entrepreneurs
at industry professionals who are making waves despite their pack schedules.
I'm your host, Christina Flack, and today I am so
excited to have a very special guest who's revolutionizing the
feminine hygiene indos street with an innovative approach to women's

(01:02):
comfort and liberation. Please join me and welcome me. Tara Harris, Hello, Welcome,
How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
How are you doing? Hi, Christna, I am good. Thank
you so much for having me on your show.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, I'm thrilled you're here. So you are the CEO
and founder of Femlex. It's a groundbreaking brand behind the
world's first pantiless antyliner. So tell me, how did you
get into this business?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh my god. Well, first of all, I a career woman,
so you know my background is, you know, human resources.
I was a director of human human resources. So I
had a medical procedure done, and I mean, honestly, I
couldn't wear thongs comfortably anymore. So I'm like, while I

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was doing the healing process, I'm trying to figure out
how am I going to wear my Lululemon, my alo leggings,
my leather leggings without showing that unflattering pantyline because I
could no longer wear thongs comfortably. So I'm fearing out,
Oh my god, if we have this for a woman's nipples,

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coverage for the nipples, why don't we have anything for
the woman's most valuable lady part, which I call MVOPS,
which stands for most Valuable Lady part. And so I started, Yes,
So my mind just started, and I went to my
bathroom cabinet and I just pulled out a traditional care free,

(02:39):
safe free pantyliner, and I said to myself, why don't
we have something like this for women that like to
go commando, right and true, I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
So obvious, it's an unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah. So the following day, I just went to Target.
I got me a sky a Google gun, uh, and
I started testing adhesive and I just started designing the
world's first panty list pantyliner. And that's really how it
was born. And I wanted it to stick to the

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woman's body to replace traditional panties or underwear. And that's
that's how it started.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
So you were in H that's so tell me a
little bit about your you know, what you did before
you were in HR.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
What were Tell me a.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Little bit about your career before and were you ready
to go and just be this entrepreneur?

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Was that a goal of yours?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, it was not a goal on my Honestly, I
was getting ready to go back to law school to
get a law degree in labor and employment law. Like
my background has been human sources. I worked my way
up the ladder. I got an MBA in Human Resources
Business management back in twenty eighteen, and I really enjoyed

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working in corporate America and human resources. So this whole
entrepreneurship was nothing I ever dreamed of. It kind of
just fell in my lap. I had this idea, I
wanted it for myself and then I wanted to share
it with women globally. So that's that's how it happened.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
So you're self funded and you did a very creative fundraising.
Do you want to tell me a little bit about that.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yes, so I am self funded. I am still you know,
seeking investors, you know, potential investors that you know sees
the potential that aligns with the vision of femi Flex
and where this product could go. I did have a
crowdfunding campaign with my very first PR agency back in

(04:52):
twenty twenty one. The crowdfunding was with indie go Go,
and uh it was I didn't raise the money that
I needed, and then I kind of just pivoted and started,
you know, trying to grow the business organically by you know,
reaching out to manufacturers because no one wanted to take

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on this innovative product. All of the feminine hygiene manufacturers
out there, nobody wanted. It took me four years to
find a manufacturing company to take on this innovative product,
to put adhesive on the upside of the product.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's unbelievable. Do you have mentors like who guides.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
You who inspires you.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So, considering that I've been self funded and bootstrapping and
doing it all on my own, I got with the SBA,
which is the Small Business Association in Los Angeles County
and have met some amazing people. I have done accelerated
cohert programs with the program called Unlocked Capital. I think

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I just finished that back in November. So along this journey,
I mean, I have met so many people by networking, connecting,
communicating and just people that help guide me. And I
you know, connected with people who are you know, angel investors,

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who are business consultants, who are consultants that help with entrepreneurship,
and you know, affiliation with accelerators and venture capitalists. So
that's kind of how I got my footing.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
And your manufacturer they're here in the United States.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, my manufacturer is located in Ontario, California, and thank
god it's made in the USA. Most of my products,
the raw materials are domestic here. So the the new
tariffs that are coming on with all of the imports
coming in China, Mexico and Kada is not going to

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affect me currently.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well that's great. Can you explain the philosophy behind the
name Femi Flex and what your brand stands for.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yes. So when I started Fammi Flex, I wanted to
come up with a name that speaks feminist free. And
when I said fammy, I wanted it to be, you know,
to speak freedom and literation for women. So fimmy Flex
just isn't a brand. It's a lifestyle that I am

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trying to get that message out there. And let me
just say this. Before Fimmy Flex, I was Fimy Free,
And I want to say because I registered for Fimy
Free and then the big boys that own Stay Free
and care Free sent me a cease and desist letter
and told me that I would confuse consumers. So they

(08:08):
made me switch. Yeah, assist, Well, they've been watching, so
I know that they're watching, and so I had to
pivot and grab the name Fimi Flex. We made sure

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that was available, the domain was available, the name was available,
because I was also afraid that the Procter and Gamble
would come after me for the little pink f in
my flex because I think they have something called flex Phone,
which deals with you know, sanitary napkins and menstruation. Fimmy
Flex doesn't focus on menstruations and periods. Fimmi Flex focus

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on freedom and liberation. We are an alternative to traditional
panties or underwear, so that is what sets Femi Flex
apart from all of the other feminine hygiene products on
the market.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
How has your experience as an HBCU graduate influence your
entrepreneurial journey do you think if at.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
All, I'm gonna be honest with you, going to an
HBCU gave me the experience, but I don't think it
had anything to do to set me up with being
an entrepreneur. So when I went to school, all this
entrepreneurship and people starting their own business was like not
even heard of. It's interesting to me now that I've

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seen programs now and you can actually go to school
and get a four year degree in entrepreneurship. That wasn't
available or an option to me when I was an
undergrad going to school.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
So is your dream of going to law school? Is
it on hold for a little bit?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's probably on hold forever because totally just d it
has totally drained me. So once I get Fimi Flex
to a place where I could kind of sell, I
don't think I'm gonna take that challenge. I don't think
I'm gonna surround myself with people that are smarter than me,

(10:19):
because that's what Steve's jobs said, you said you should do.
You should surround yourself with people smarter than you, and
you don't tell them what to do. They tell you
what to do. So I'm growing my business. I am.
As soon as I get some investment money in, I
will be able to bring on board, you know, team
members that will help align and scale the company.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
How many are you in? Where can people find your
product right now? Is it online or is it in
different stores?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Right now? Fimi flex is all e commerce. It's available
on Amazon dot com, Walmart dot com, and then you know,
you could always purchased from my official website with his
fimmy flex dot com. That's f E M E f
l e x dot com fimmyflegx dot com.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
What were some of the biggest challenges of launching an
innovative product in the feminine hygiene market? Besides these competes
with these companies, what else did you find to be challenging.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think what was most challenging?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
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Speaker 2 (13:42):
Hi, welcome back. I'm Christina Flack and we are chatting
with miss Tara. So what were the biggest challenges of
launching an innovative product in the feminine hygiene market?

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I would say the biggest challenge for me was to
actually find a manufacturer that was willing to take on
this project which is an innovative product, something that they've
never heard of, and using silicone, which is unheard of
to use on a feminute hygiene product. So the silicone,

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which is a delicate adhesive, is this material that I
use that sticks to the body. So after doing research
and focused groups, I just learned that silicone works best
because silicon allows a woman to remove the product, use
the bathroom, and place it back on her body. So

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I didn't want to force a woman to take it
off to go urinate and then have to have a
new one to put back on. It's almost like a
band aid, you know, something you put a band aid
when once you pill it up, it doesn't stick back
the same, right. I didn't want that for I don't
want to force women to use multiple I wanted them
to reuse it if it was still clean and they

(14:59):
were comfortable with it. So sourcing silicone skills for feminine
hygiene product was probably my biggest challenge, And the biggest
challenge was just finding a manufacturing company to take on
the product. And I would say it was hard because
I would get these emails. You know, we just don't

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see you getting women to stop wearing underwear. Good luck
in your endeavors. So I get all these Dear John emails,
day after day after day, waking up midnight, two o'clock
in the morning, speaking with manufacturing companies and other countries
in India, China, and for them all to eventually tell
me Nope, sorry, can't do it. Good luck.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
What was their hesitation? I mean, you're asking them to.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Like, did they not want to compete with these other
companies or were they just.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Being difficult?

Speaker 3 (15:58):
I don't think they saw them. No, I don't think
they saw the vision. They don't see the vision. It's
almost like what Sarah Blakely said, the creator of the
world's first shapewear right. I follow her on Instagram. She
follows me. It's almost like when you when something is innovative,

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it's hard for some people and most people to see
the vision and where you're going with it, Like she said,
it's only delusional until it works. So no one saw Yeah,
no one saw my vision. No one thought that it
could work. No one thought And I'm like, oh my god,

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did you look at the oscars and the after parties
and all the awards shows lately, women aren't wearing any underwear.
They are scantily clad, dressed on the red carpet. So
I wanted to help women and give women an option
and give them some type of basic common for the
protection of their valuable lady part, so that they don't

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have to feel sticky and wet and still look good.
And they're clothing without unflattering pantyline or the irritating string
between the butt cheeks right when we're wearing thongs. So
I honestly think that's what it was. They just did
the division. Honestly, I'm gonna that's why you continue to

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grind and push and find and push for your visor
or your product, because it's only delusional until it becomes
popular and it works, and then people will have that
light bulb moment and this and I'll be and this
will be history. This conversation and I are having having.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Exactly your product was featured in the Any Word on
these gift bags. How I mean that must have made
a huge impact on your business.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
What was the reaction? How did people receive it?

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well? I thought people it so at that time the
actors were having a strike, right, so it laid so
the organization put together the Emmy gift bags. You are
in a gift bag with probably thirty other products, right,

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and it goes way to the nominees and I've got
a you know, some good feedback or whatever, but nothing
that took fimmy Flex to the next level. You know,
It's it's constant getting the brand out there. Because the
celebrities didn't know what it was that, you know, they
could probably look at it be like okay, and then
maybe once you know fimmy Flex starts to scale and grow,

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they can think back to say, well, oh, I think
we got that a few years ago. Like that brand
or that logo looks really familiar. But it was a
great opportunity. The person Lisa who puts together the gift
bags for award shows in Los Angeles an amazing job
by posting and doing a press release also for it.

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So I was incited to be a part of that.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's exciting.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Can you tell me a little bit about your collaboration
with Impressions of Beauty and your work on HBCU campuses.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yes. So Impression is a company owned by women that
went to Florida and Muity. I met them last year.
So what they do is put on campaigns and programs
throughout the nation for all twenty three twenty five HBCU schools.

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So they engage the girls at black colleges you know,
all around the country and they put on you know,
beauty shows, fashion shows, and then they have sponsors like Disney,
all of the Ley, Cream of Nature, Honey Pot, and
I participated in one of their gift bags and so

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that the students it would be in the gift bags
that the students would come to for that particular event.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
How do you balance.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Being both the creative force and the business leader of
your company?

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Is that a challenge for you?

Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's very challenging. I just want to be honest with
people like I just want to tell them being an
entrepreneur is not for the faint heart it. Success doesn't
happen overnight. You have more than skin and the same
you have your blood, sweat and tears. In the game
comes with a lot of tears, a lot of heartache,

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a lot of anxiety. Things don't go your way because
you've have you have so much invested, and then you
have people that will make come to you and make
you offers that doesn't align with the vision of your company,
or they're being aggressive and greedy with what they want

(21:11):
in return for funding. And at some point you have
to find brands, the courage, the faith to say this
doesn't work for me. I may still be in you know,
starving or struggling, but I will continue to do that
until the right offer comes along. Because all money is

(21:32):
not good money. And I've learned that, and I would
just say, you have to keep your head up, you
keep the faith, and you keep going. You only fail
if you stop. So that's me by advising body on
this journey. I am speaking at the University of Georgia.

(21:55):
Oh it's a key Don't speaker for the Innovations Women
boot Camp. So I'm going to get to tell the
story from the beginning to where I am now and encourage,
to motivate, lead, inspire other entrepreneurs who are coming along
behind me, and just tell them to just keep going

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and to align yourself with people that are like minded.
People who aren't entrepreneurs who don't think outside of the box,
don't listen to them, don't listen to them and say, well,
you had one hundred thousand dollars first year in business,
you're not gonna make it. Don't listen to them, stay away.

(22:42):
I mean it's just I mean it is and that
comes with friends, family, co workers, colleagues, all of the above.
If they do not share your vision, you can't talk
about your business with them.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
It has to be that way. And you know, I also,
like I've told my kids.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Figure out what you love doing so much that you
would do it for free and then figure out how
to get paid.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Right.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
But it's also because I you know, I'm a CEO as.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well, and trust me, hearing your story, I'm like looking
in the mirror at myself.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
You know, no one's going to believe in us the
way we do.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
And that's why it's so important having friendships that we
have with each other and supporting each other. And it's like,
you know what, it takes so much more time, money, effort,
everything to do this, But I am so proud of
you because it's not easy. You know, it would have
been super easy for you to go look, graduated college,

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got an MBA.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
I'm going to go to law school. I'm going to
make a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
But you know, you took a real big risk here
with your career and doing this, and I know it's
going to succeed. It's just going to take time. It's
it's just what you said. This doesn't happen overnight, and
you you know, you have to believe it. You have
to just keep focused like you are on how you
want this to turn on and not And worrying is
a waste of time, you know. And I can tell

(24:08):
you don't worry well, I mean you do a normal amount,
but focusing on worrying what could possibly happen is just
a waste of time.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
So it's I know, it's hard, and some days seems
so much harder than more than other days.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
What do you do?

Speaker 2 (24:22):
You have other products that you're thinking of adding to
your line or is this kind of.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
All? What else do you have going on?

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Okay, so Fami Flex is one size fits all. So
when I started designing my product, I went to about
five doynecologies and she basically told me that the makeup
of a woman's anatomy, unless she's abnormal, is pretty much
the same. The only difference is we have you know,
you will have you know, a bigger person will have

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more fat on their thighs or on their right ac
that our most valuable lady part, so I didn't have
to do a small, medium a large. It fits. So
I've never had anyone to say, oh, you need to
make it bigger. It's like no, because you don't want
to look like you have a tail in the back. Right.
So when I was doing the proto type of yeah,

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so you wanted to just cover that very specific important air.
That's right, So you want to absorb the more right.
Fimmy flex helps you if you want to wear your shape,
wear more than once without having to get and washed.
Fimmy Flex also helped with these, you know, uncomfortable body suits.

(25:44):
Let's talk about those uncomfortable body suits with those snaps
in the button. Oh my god, I can't.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Well, you know what, Chamber.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I'm sorry. The body suits are so flattering, but they're
very uncomfortable. Honestly, I still wear them because they look
so good. But you better believe me. I am miserable.
They're gonna say, where is Tara? Well, Tar has gone
to the bathroom trying to reposition this thing because it's
cutting her up.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Oh my god, I yes, I can tell you. I
am done that so many times. It's insane.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
What do you think you're what has been your proudest
moment so far since you've launched this company.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I would say my proudest moment is exactly where I
am today. Actually got an idea concept product to the
market in less than two years. Someone told me that's
unheard of. Like I never gave up all the thoughts
that I got from the manufacturing company. I kept pushing,
googling manufacturing companies, calling people asking purls, who can do this?

(27:07):
Baby diapers manufacturing companies. I reached out to any paper
manufacturing company and ask, could you help me build a prototype?
Could you help me manufacture and produce this very innovative product.
So I would say that is what I feel accomplished.
I did something that I never thought that I could do.

(27:27):
I you know, I filed the patent for it, I
filed the trademarks for Like, this is making history. So
I am looking for the big beauty brands, the big
feminine hygien companies. There's somebody to partner with me to
make femi Flex a part of their already amazing portfolio,
and let's help me scale and grow this company.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
What do you learn that surprises you about being a
founder and CEO of your company?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
There are some really greedy people in this world. They
want to come in when you've done all the hard work.
And even ventor capitalists right now, like they was say, oh, Torr,
we think you're great, the product's great, but we want

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to see you make half a million dollars in sales. Well,
you know what, that's not helping a true startup. That
is not helping a true startup. So they want to
sit back and continue to watch you grind and see
how hard you want it, and then they'll they'll come
on board. But those are the vcs that I wouldn't
deal with. I would I would source someone else who

(28:44):
who didn't say to me, let me sit back and
watch you grind and struggle some more before we come in.

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Speaker 2 (31:00):
Welcome back. We are chatting with Tara. How important is
Amazon when you're an entrepreneur and with a startup? They
are they really helpful?

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
I'm gonna be honest with you. Amazon doesn't take a
chunk of your product, but I think they are very
important starting out because new consumers with a new brand,
a new product, innovative product they've never heard of, they
trust Amazon. So I would say Amazon is very important

(31:36):
for a startup. Now, going forward, I will probably have
to figure something else out with Amazon because once start
scale and growing my own I'll be in a position
to negotiate some of those feeds. Those fees are astronomical high.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Right have you thought of going on like a home
shopping network or QBC.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
Or is this topic?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Is this going to be something that people have like
a hard time, like wanting to talk about without getting
all uncomfortable and weird.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, you know what, I You know, my personality is
Even some of the most conservative, brutish women, I'm able
to get them to open up to talk about the
natural things that happened with our bodies without making them
feel embarrassed or talk about some bless some people are

(32:31):
open about it. But I'm pretty good at getting to
open up and to talk about the uncomfortable natural things
that goes along with a woman's body.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Right, Well, you're comfortable in your skin, and you know,
when you're comfortable in your skin, you can talk about anything.
And it's the people that are uncomfortable in their skin
that have a hard time with.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
What do you think as an entrepreneur that you see yourself?

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Like where do you look for help?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Like do you speak to other entrepreneurs or to the
other CEOs? It doesn't even really need to be in
your you know, industry, But who do you have a
network of people that help you on you know, because
you know, we start these companies like I did the same.
You don't get a handbook of Oh now you're a CEO.
I don't know about you. I didn't even know what

(33:32):
a CEO was when I became one. So you just
learn along the way. And I don't think there's any failures.
I think they're all lessons. Like and sometimes these things
that don't turn out, they're a blessing.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
They're not happening to you, They're happening for you. Do
you find that to be the case?

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I do. I do so starting this business. Fortunately, I
have a girlfriend that I went to college with. She
started her cosmetic business about a year two years before.
We feed off of each other. I also met another
entrepreneur with her own business when I auditioned for Shark

(34:18):
Tank a few years ago. And it's so important to
speak to other people that are grinding for their business
from the bottom. We you know, exchange notes about what
to do next and how you should get your business
plan together and the valuation of her company. You know,

(34:41):
what are you going to offer anyone who wants to invest.
So I get to feed off of things like that,
discussions with other people that are actually going through the
exact same thing that I'm growing and felling the business.
I find that at a very early.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I think that's so great because I find it to
be the case as well. I think other CEOs and
other founders are kind of feel like it's their obligation
once they've gotten to a certain level to help people
that are starting out like we are with our companies,
and I think, you know, our egos have to get
out of the way because all we can do is

(35:23):
ask someone. And I've found that like ten times out
of ten, everyone is very happy to help if we
just get out of our own way and ask for help.
And sometimes it's hard to do that. Did you find
that hard?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
No? I didn't find that hard. I actually can say
to you I have had so much help, even if
it was just a referral, even if them helping me
find a visitor to source raw materials. I have come
across really helpful people to get me to the next

(36:05):
stage and the next level in this journey. Without the
networking referrals and asking and people introduce me to this
person and that person and that person and that person,
I wouldn't be where I am right.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
No, that's really true. If you're looking back at your
entrepreneurial journey.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
What key lessons have you learned about building a purpose
driven business?

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Stay motivated? I would say stay motivated. Just keep in
mind that a no today, are tears today? You can
file two days later because every time I'm trying or
something upset my way, two days later something positive happened.

(36:59):
So I would say to just focus on vision and
do whatever it takes to continue on the journey. Because
I say to myself, if it was everybody would be
doing everybody would be a nobody if it was easy.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
I'm right, if it was easy to be exceptional, everyone
would be exceptional.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
That is correct, and then there would be nobody working
for big companies or corporation. So I, you know, I
fell into this and I I'm the type of person
who who is giving a task and I complete my task.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, well that's how it has to be.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Right, Absolutely, that's how it has to be. So let
me tell you about my five essays. Right, people say,
what are your five s? Well, this is what I
come up with doing this journey. There are five sss.
You are going to struggle, you are going to make sacrifices.

(38:12):
You will have days where you stress, and then you
will have days of starvation. It's starvation. I don't mean
just food. It's starving yourself of taking vacations and doing
the things that your other family members and friends are doing.
But it's that last s. That success is what all

(38:34):
the other ss is worth. It's what the success makes
the starving, the starving stress, all of those other work
at the end. So that's what you call myself.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I love that. What do you do when your day
isn't flowing?

Speaker 3 (38:56):
I pray? I pray for strength, for guidance, for faith
and courage to keep going.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
How about self care? Is that important to you? And
what do you do to spoil yourself or take care
of yourself?

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Oh my god, self care is so important. I always
call it a beauty bath. Like my girlfriend was like,
what are you doing? I was like, I'm taking a
beauty bath, She's said, A beauty bat a feed bath
where your your favorite salt from you are foliating your skin.
You are you're giving yourself your you know, your own wax.

(39:40):
You're paving the bikini area, the under arms, the legs,
you are doing everything, and then when you're done, you're
putting your nice body butter and oils on you may
even you know, do your own toes at home at
the time. So I call it like a beauty bath.
It's a beauty spot at home.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
I love that. I do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
I think it's important.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Do you what's your workout and your diet?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Like these days, are you doing anything special that you're
really inspired by?

Speaker 3 (40:17):
No, Christina, I'm just a lazy couch potato.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Like honest, Oh my god, I don't believe you at all.
I don't believe you.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
I'm sorry. I am such a laky potato. What I
tell you all the zooms that I have every day
and this, and that I'm mentally exhausted. You donould think
that I work for you, yes, or heavy boxes all
day because I am exhausted. So I have not really

(40:50):
worked out, and probably since I started this journey, I
haven't worked out in like three years.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
If I didn't work out and like eat, well, I
don't even know if I could function.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
I just feel like take I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I think self care like for me, starts with like
in the morning water tea green juice, working out like.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
If I don't do that, I am a wreck.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
And I can't go on TV talking about, you know,
being a beauty expert on NBC or any of the
other things I do. If I look like a disheveled mess.
So I kind of have to look what together.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
I may not I fake a look. I hire myself
a lot.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
But you know, do you get out and go for
walks like I love that.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
You're too nice?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
I do. I do walk, and then I also try
to do things around the house like I do squats
and things like that.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Okay, now we're getting there. I knew you were.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
You're not going to the gym, but you are getting
extra size of moving around.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Yeah. I didn't think. There's no way you look the
way you look and not do anything.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
You're so thank you. Well, honey, listen, I am promoting
a feminine hygiene product where I'm all about body, body,
body right woman. I can be going on a talk
show and I am out of shape or no no, no, no, no.

(42:27):
Now you know, my product is for the bold, body
conscious woman that's a woman of any size, any shape,
any color, doesn't matter. It's all how a woman feels internally.
So that's kind of my my focus is for women
to see that it's how you feel internally and how

(42:50):
you feel in your clothing, and the reflex is just
here to get that extra that benefit. Who inspires you, innovators?

(43:12):
I am inspired by people outside the box, like since
I started the whole entrepreneur journey. I watched the History Channel.
I watch how cranberry juice was made from ocean spray,
and how cranberries were meant to be cranberries and a

(43:32):
crop that year got messed up and they had all
these mushy, squshy cranberries. And one of the owners at
that time was like, what can we do with this?
Where they ashed it up and they made juice, and
that cranberry juice was formed.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
That was interesting.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
I love.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
I love that stuff too.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
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Speaker 2 (46:02):
Welcome back. I'm Christina Flack and weird chatting with Tara.
What do you think is like your motto or your
favorite quote?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Do you have one.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
For that's in regards to Fimmy flights.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Life, you know, work, your professional life, your private life
or both.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
I would say, treat people the way you want to
be treated. I always kind of sort of live by that.
I try to treat people the way that I want
to be treated.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Well, that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
What about and that goes for both your professional and
your private life.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Absolutely, I want to be like Mark Cuban. I want
to be like when Mark Cuban says that I listened
to him and how he started and his first company.
He took care of the people who believed in him,
who gave him a thousand dollars you know, for him
for his company, and that thousand dollars has you know,

(47:11):
investment that he got from someone but they believed in him.
Was a lot of money then and now you know
they're millionaires. Now. That's the kind of stuff that I
want to do because I've got some good people on
my team that's been with me from day one that
I haven't been able to pay them. I haven't been
able to pay you know, a few people that are

(47:32):
still on my team, like my business manager who consults
me doing business deals, helping me put my business plan together.
The people that I want to take care of. So
I believe in just giving back.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Yeah, I think the same. It's so hard. I mean
when you're starting, it's like.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
It's never ending all the you know, and people really
they see something in you that they believe in and
they know it's going to work.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
It's just going to take a little bit longer.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Like you know who, it comes to mind, like Kim Kardashian,
this is such a skim Like you've gotta get a
meeting with her.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Yeah, well, you know, she just teamed up with Nike
to make you know, athletic where you know sexy, which
is a great partnership with them. So yeah, fimmy Flex
will definitely pair well with them. Finny Flex will pair
well in the beauty personal care space. They're also feminine
like like the big boys, the Proctor and the Gambles,

(48:30):
the Johnson and Johnson, the Kimberly's and Clark, all of those.
And you know, it's just gonna be amazing how I'm
in this position now and you just watch when fimmy
Flex starts to scale, the phone will start to ring.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
And exactly have you had those big companies hip?

Speaker 3 (48:54):
I'm in conversations talking to someone at Procter and Gamble.
Procter and Gamble actually bought my product from Amazon back
in December. They know that they're looking. But what I
do know about big corporations, they want to see that
there's a market or a trend before they come in

(49:15):
with a collaboration or even an acquisition. Right So, right now,
I'm just trying to get to a point. So all
the executives and business development owners and shareholders are going
to come out and like like who is that small company?
Who is this? Why didn't we think of this? And
I think that's where all of things will start to align,

(49:35):
where we can start having a conversation at that time.
But first Famiflex will need to show that there is
a market for this, and we.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
No, I'm sure it's just a matter of time before
that happens. What would you tell your eighteen year old
self that you wish you.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Knew work harder?

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Similar?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Right? Like I would if I had this mind when
I was, you know, in my twenties. You know. But
I look at life like everything happens for a reason,
and I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
I agree.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
And I also think that all the things that you
did in your past careers have led you to this place,
Like you wouldn't be in this place if you hadn't
gotten the NBA and gone to college and you know,
worked it with a big company. I mean, all those
experiences you had actually help you to run your company,

(50:50):
don't you think?

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Oh? Absolutely, I am very well equipped season to higher
germ and a train recruit because that's what you do
in HR. You you you bone screen, you recruit, put
agreements together, n DA's, you put off of letters together.

(51:14):
You speak with attorneys, labor and employment laws you know
in each state. So I that's one thing I can't
say the investors did say that, you know, when it
comes to still honing in on your team, when you
start to build your team, I can still do a
lot of that because I'm very well seasoned in and
experienced senior HR professional, and I could do all of that.

(51:39):
I do. I do payroll. I mean I can start payroll.
I can do paypro. I love, so I wouldn't anyone
do that. I could actually do that until is big
enough where I can take on the at the at.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Is there anything that you want to share today that
I haven't asked?

Speaker 3 (52:08):
I just think of I would want to share that
two people are listening your viewers and to never give
up on their dreams and to just going even when
you feel down and at your words, don't give up.

(52:32):
They laser focused and then'll succeed. And that's really all
I can think because anybody who's come from and make history,
because you know, I'm making, you know, creating the world's
first pantiless that you know, stick to the woman body

(52:56):
and replaces traditional pantings underwear and it's disposable all right now.
Pitching for Federal Government Pact to offer this innovative part
a military women and to hopefully get some fun to
make it bile degradable. So our active military women out

(53:17):
in the field bury this. You know, we go to
the bathroom like. So that's interesting to get a federal
government contract and make it a sign for women on
you know, commissaries and PDX exchanges.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
I love all that.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Thank you so much for being here today. I'm so
inspired by you. I'm so proud of all that you do.
That's remarkable. I want to thank Alex, my engineer in
New York, Avery and Maya, and to he who shall
be nameless, thank you for all and I will see
you next week.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
I'm Christina Flack and I'm too busy.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
This has been I'm too busy with host Christina Flack.
Tune in each week as Christina approaches the concept of
success holistically, recognizing that achievement is not solely measured.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
By financial triumphs, but also by.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
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