Top Tips For Starting A Business: How We Started Bloom

Pursuit of Wellness

Mari Llewellyn

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 168: In this episode of Pursuit of Wellness, I’m sitting down with my husband and Bloom co-founder, Greg, to share the story of how we turned our scrappy startup into a thriving business. We’ll dive into our entrepreneurial journey, from selling PDF workout guides and resistance bands to scaling Bloom into a wellness powerhouse with millions of products sold. Along the way, we’re sharing lessons learned, mistakes made, and tips for starting your own business. Whether you’re dreaming of launching a side hustle or building an empire, this episode has something for you. Tune in for inspiration, actionable advice, and a behind-the-scenes look at our path to success! Leave Me a Message - click here! For Mari’s Instagram click here! For Pursuit of Wellness Podcast’s Instagram click here! For Mari’s Newsletter click here! For Greg’s Instagram click here! Sponsored By: If you are ready to start your entrepreneurial journey, head to shopify.com/mari and see how easy it is to bring your idea to life. Whether it is a side hustle or a dream business, there is no better time to start than now! Show Links: How I Transformed My Life: 90 Pounds Down with Discipline and Goal Setting Check out the Strength by Mari app Bloom Colostrum Bloom Greens Bloom Sparking Energy Bloom Creatine Topics Discussed 00:00:09:00: Introduction 00:01:04:00: How Greg sets business goals 00:01:44:00: Their business story 00:03:17:00: Their first product 00:05:09:00: First website 00:06:52:00: First physical product 00:09:45:00: Finding a warehouse 00:10:40:00: The reason behind their first products 00:11:51:00: Social media 00:13:59:00: Advice for running paid ads on social media 00:15:55:00: Mari’s social media community 00:18:10:00: Starting Bloom Nutrition 00:21:36:00: Launching pre-workout 00:24:40:00: Shopify 00:27:17:00: Launching greens 00:29:41:00: Community feedback 00:32:58:00: Product with subscription 00:23:57:00: Advice for getting started 00:36:29:00: Advice for someone with a 9-5 wanting to start a business 00:37:57:00: No end goal in mind

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0:00.0	This is the Pursuit of Wellness Podcast, and I'm your host, Mari Lauella.
0:09.6	What is up, guys?
0:11.0	Welcome back to the Pursuit of Wellness Podcast.
0:14.0	I am here today with my husband and co-founder, Greg Lavecia.
0:17.8	Good morning, wife.
0:18.8	Good morning.
0:19.3	Today we are talking about how we built Bloom, our entrepreneurial journey from the
0:26.4	beginning.
0:27.2	So if you're listening and you have starting a business on your vision board for 2025,
0:33.6	if you're thinking about how you want to get started, really like the actual steps in starting a
0:40.0	online business. Obviously, we have physical products now, but we have, we've really been through
0:45.9	such an evolution with our business and started from PDF guides to resistance bands to
0:51.8	supplements. So we have had a lot of experience with starting companies.
0:56.0	So I wanted to bring Greg on today to talk to you guys about how we did it and give you guys
1:01.3	some tips and tricks and inspiration to start your own company. Yeah, I'm super excited about this.
1:06.1	I'm diehard entrepreneur. I would say there's two points every year that I try to click a little reset. One is
1:13.9	January 1st. The second is my birthday. So I'll just write like, I'll write in my personal notes on
1:18.9	my phone. What does Greg in 2025 look like? What does Greg at 30 years old look like? And then I'll
1:26.7	kind of just like create my goals that way.
1:28.5	Yeah. And I'll kind of like imagine like, well, he's going to wake up on time. Well, he's going to
1:32.0	start this business. Well, he's going to start creating content. So that's what I'm doing to
1:35.7	prepare for 2025.
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