Adrian talks to Naana Daniels, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Honam Naturals. The founder's Ghanaian heritage inspired the brand's conception in 2017 and they're dedicated to championing glowing skin. At Honam Naturals, they believe that everyone deserves to feel beautiful in their own skin, and that's why they offer a wide range of skincare products for all skin types.
Honam Naturals is a skincare line for all skin types that practices sustainable and non-toxic living. Their product packing was a thoughtful choice, by using eco-friendly, recyclable packaging. Established in 2017, the founder's struggle with Lupus and Scleroderma is the driving force that led to the creation of Honam Naturals. They understand the importance of non-toxic living and sustainability, which is why they've made it our mission to offer products that are not only good for your skin but also good for the environment.
The brand is now being stocked in the likes of Walmart, Amazon and TJ Maxx Stores!
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In this episode we discuss:
- How the brand started
- All About Honam Naturals
- Hydrating and perserving your skin over the Autumn and Winter seasons
- The secret to some of their skincare products
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The lady went back to the US, and she didn't hear from her for a
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while. She realized that she wasn't coming back to purchase her products.
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So she called her and the lady was a little bit elusive.
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She did a research and found out that not only was the lady
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Producing the product in the states, she had named it
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What? What the woman was selling in Ghana. So She had actually
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stolen her idea from her, and the woman
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had nothing to do because she hadn't,
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she didn't have any IP rights to it. So we we heard of
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stories like this and how How people would come up with
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ideas, and we're so excited about our ideas. And, of course, we run
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on social media. Hey, everyone. Welcome
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to the sound of crowd Podcasts, I go by the name of Adrian Daniels.
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This is the show where we speak to top Ghanaian founders, entrepreneurs, and
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traders worldwide With the aim of leaving you behind are meaningful takeaways
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that you can play apply in your life, business, and career.
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Today, we are gonna continue the a conversation series. This is a series
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where we speak to, we explore the lives, journey, and
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celebrate the success of individuals from a Ghanaian heritage or interest in
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short and sweet episodes. Today I'm joined by the founder of
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Honeam Naturals, Elizabeth Daniels, also known as Nana
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Daniels, which is a skincare line for all skin
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types That practice sustainable and nontoxic
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living. Auntie, how are you doing? Welcome back to the
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show. It's been a few years. I'm doing great. I love
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the short and sweet. Yeah. I'm doing great.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, short and sweet because usually, when we do
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seasons, episodes tend to be around the hour mark. So the the whole point
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of doing this is that we can try and get episodes to run 30 to
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40 minute mark. So So we can kind of fit it with within someone's commute.
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And then also, it gives people, you know, a bit more
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time to just, You know, digest what's going on. So yeah.
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So yeah. I know it's been a little while since we had you on the
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show back in 2020, all the way in season
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1. Wow. And then and then, of course, in late 2022, we had you
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sponsor season 4. So thank you very much. So a lot has happened
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between those two It's a time point. You're very welcome.
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So, auntie, I just wanna go straight into it. So for the sake of new
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listeners and for refreshing our our existing audience,
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could you share in a nutshell quickly how you started honam naturals and
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why you started it?
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Yeah. So I started Hunam Naturals in 2017.
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It was a project where I was looking for
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skincare, and something that was great for
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sensitive skin because I live with Lupus and claudema and that
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makes me sensitive to lots of products so
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I tried different products and they were helpful but
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it was a little bit outrageously priced
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and I've lived in Ghana, I grew up in Ghana so I
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knew the effects of plant based
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products and I had Shea butter
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I tried Shea butter I mixed it and I used it for my
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skin and it did help so I didn't want to change what
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I already knew if it works why not do it
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so I came up with a line and Everybody
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else liked it. So Unam Naturals
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was born. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
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And what I always love that story every time I hear it. Even though I've
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heard it before, it always gets me every time I hear it. For those of
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you that want to listen to the full story, we'll put a a link
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below to the season 1 episode so we can hear the full story. We go
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into this in a bit more detail, and we talk about lupus a bit more.
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But what I like about this auntie is that you talked the adversity that was
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happening in your life, which is lupus, the skin disease, And you turn
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into an opportunity that you can use to not only help yourself, to get
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yourself off medication, but also to improve your skin And to also
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improve your life and the life the life of those around you as well and
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the lives of those that, you know, that you've never met before. So it was
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a powerful product that you've created. And, yeah,
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and I'm I'm aware it's been 6 years now, coming up 6 years since you've,
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launched the the brand? On 27th. I think that's the next 2
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days. Will now be 6 years. My baby's grown.
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Oh, wow. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. And,
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I know since then, you've gone on to do some great things, which we'll Dive
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into throughout the episode. So you've gone you've gone on to Walmart
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US, United States Mhmm. Warm Walmart Canada. You know,
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you're recognized by Google during the Black History Month, and you've
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been featured by Walmart on International Women's Day. There there's so
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many achievements that that you've that you've achieved, since
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Honam started and up to the present day, what would you say are
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some of your notable standout achievements that that mean a lot to you
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personally? I
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think the idea of giving back and
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with Well, since I've had I've had lupus for,
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a little over 20 years and from day
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1, I mean I knew that I
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would have to find a way just to, for
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awareness to bring People, their awareness of the
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disease and definitely through making people
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aware of the disease, I've been able to raise funds for Lupus Ontario,
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and all those funds would go towards research so that would help people
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like me and other people that are going to be diagnosed
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and Every May since we had this
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ecommerce site, in May, we donate a portion of
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our sales to Lofus Foundation. However,
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this year, I did something different. I own a tour
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company, and I was going on tour to Ghana, and had also
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collaborated with a doctor in the north
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in tamale and he had started
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A clinic, a a urologist clinic, and it was
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just based for men. However, he saw
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the need of women looking for health care, so
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women started going there and he spoke to me about it
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and I'd want to liaise with him and see how I could help
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so a portion of my sales from
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May this year went towards buying things like
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hospital gowns for the women as well as gloves and
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things that he needed for the hospital. So
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In How full. April, I went to the clinic
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and had a tour of it, and I just spoke to him last week, and
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I can't wait to go. The clinic is now opened and
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we're going back again yeah so
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my funds I raised for this May went towards
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a clinic, and giving back was one of the I
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think it's one of my proudest moments. Yeah.
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That's that's amazing. And I think it's really it's really awesome that you have
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this, social impact side of the business because At the end
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of the day, the brand is all about it's all about sustainability.
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It's all about making a change socially. So when you're able to kind of,
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like, do this In person, like, contribute
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socially to different causes. It just shows
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another side of the brand, and it really shows, You
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know what people are buying into when they buy the HONA
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Natural skincare line. So I think this is really, really powerful. And also on
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top of that, I mean, Ghana Ghana Healthcare, we all know that it needs a
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lot of help, and it's it is getting a lot of help at the moment.
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K. But it can never have enough help. There's so much more that needs to
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be done, and Just that little contribution you've done is gonna make such an
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impact. So I'm really, really pleased to hear about what you're doing with
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the Huron Naturals brand. Really, really exciting. And,
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talking of sustainability as well, I think you did some stuff with, TJ Maxx,
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which is, which is the which is the version of TK Maxx in
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United States and Canada. Could you talk us about that experience really quickly as
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well? Yeah. So,
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honam naturals has been a sustainable
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company and the reason is because First of all,
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everything that is done with honam goes back to my
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lupus and with lupus,
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They they don't know the known cause, but, however, they believe that there's
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something in the environment that causes lupus. It's still
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being researched so that for that little that I know, I
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decided to try and live a non toxic life. I
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tried to Be very intentional
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with my company, so I chose, sustainable
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packaging, and I also try as much as
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possible to bring anything equal into it.
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So anyhow, I had pitched To t j
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maxx years ago, years ago, I went into a contest
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and I pitched to them to sell my
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products there. And during the
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pitch I had a gentleman on there who just loved my
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products one of the buyers and We're still in
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arrangements and we've seen how we can get the products there.
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However, he invited me to, and
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a sustainable, markets that they usually have
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once a year. So they celebrate equal equal month
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or something. So they invited me to go and sell and a few
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other women from the contest and like t
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j maxx has been on the top of my list to
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sell there. So I was I it was very exciting,
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yeah, to sell there. So that's how it came about. Yeah. It it
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is exciting because when you go into a TK Maxx or a T. J. Maxx,
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I mean, when you go in towards the counter, you do see a lot of
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These type of eco friendly, organic type products, isn't it? So I can
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imagine the Harlem Naturals being in there Somewhere in the mix
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of it, and I'm sure it'll be amazing for you to get your products rolled
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out in there as well as warm up. Okay. Yeah.
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Alright. So let's let's let's let's Let's keep our fingers crossed, and let's let's
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keep an eye out in terms of what what other stockists that her and her
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natural be featured on. Alright. So, auntie, let's talk more about the the
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products. We've talked about some of your achievements. We will come back to some of
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the achievements that you've, achieved. Let's talk about more about the
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products. So right now, we're in the autumn winter season. I've told you
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now, you know, the the days are getting shorter, You know, I'm pulling on
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warmer clothes now and I'm sure it's the same thing in the US and Canada.
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So let's let's talk about, Huronam Naturals, products. So
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especially, I think, the the skincare I think the skincare line Mhmm. Especially
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the the body butters. So I'm I'm gonna share I'm gonna share the screen now,
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and I want you to talk talk us through some of the the body butters
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that come back cold weather, because I feel like these are really, really important this
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this kind of season. Right? Yeah well
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especially when canada we have very very long
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winters so Well, when we did the body butters,
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we did 2 type of butters. So we've got people with a very,
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very oily skin. So this means that they don't need
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something very oily so for those who are not seeking oily
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butters we have the Hem, We have the
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jojoba, and we have the mango. Okay. And for those who
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have really, really dry skin like me, I do have very
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dry skin. We have the Shea butter, we have the coconuts,
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and we have the cocoa. Mhmm.
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So around this time basically everybody would fall
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into the dry skin so everybody needs
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lots of hydration and as much as we say use
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our body butters and it's very great for you at the same time we
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also would advise people to drink lots of
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water and hydrate because that also helps with your skin
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and eats foods that
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like very good for your skin like fatty acids
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fishes with fatty acids and of course it would be wonderful
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that you use our, our body
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butters. And the body butters is usually great at
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when you step out of the shower and whilst your Skin is still damp.
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It's best that that's the best time that you put the body butters in so
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what happens is it locks the moisture in your skin
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So you are able to keep hydrated for
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a longer period. Yeah. Again, we add,
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vitamin e Mhmm. To all our products. So
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vitamin e is very, very great for your skin. We want your skin's
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elasticity to stay almost the same.
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So even in 60, you could have very very youthful
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skin. Mhmm. And so we
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have something for everybody
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dry skin we have you for eczema we have The Shea
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Butters, we also have the Jojoba for somebody
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with Rosacea, you have the Jojoba and stuff
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and we managed to put all the benefits on the
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website, so just go through to figure out which
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one would relate to your need Yeah. And, of course, we put
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before and after pictures that some of our clients and
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customers have shared with us. Yeah. Really, really yeah.
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This is, really great stuff. And you can just see the transformation in the
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in the skin. Like, with this lady right here, I I don't know if it's
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makeup or it's actual skin, but, I mean, you can clearly see even with makeup,
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her her skin is actually cleared up. Yeah
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she's been a very very wonderful customer I
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mean she came to us when her skin was very very severely
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damaged Yeah. And now, like,
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she's used, and she's a walking testimony
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for Hanaum Naturals. Yeah. Fantastic. This is really
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fantastic. Yeah. This is really, really fantastic.
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Alright. So okay. Great. So in terms of winter,
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You've you've you've you've taken us through some of the the products that you're saying
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that we should kind of look out for. So and I'm aware
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for those for those Who are watching from the UK, you know, there's,
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there's shipping. The shipping costs are are quite reasonable, aren't
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they? Well, in
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Ontario, we do have, anything over
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$55 we ship for free. Mhmm. I also
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now have a flat rate for shipping to the UK as well
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as to to the US,
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and We also have the products in
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Walmart in the US so you could also go there, you could also come on
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my website, Amazon also ships to the US.
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Mhmm. And we are looking into coming into the UK,
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so we'll see how how it goes.
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Fingers crossed. We do have a flat rates shipping rates
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to the UK. That's brilliant. So people so the UK
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People can order as much as they want at one price for shipping, which is
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fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Great. And I just wanted to,
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just wanted to share with the listeners as well, Regarding your blog, you've got a
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really great blog. I believe you have shared some amazing tips in
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terms of, looking after your your skin and your body. I don't know if there's
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anything else that you wanted to add to that.
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Well, we also open on, on my social media links. I'm
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open for you to send me your questions. I mean, definitely,
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it's based on some of the blogs are based on questions that people
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keep asking us. So we'll write a blog
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that would be able to help others. And one thing that has come up
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recently that everybody is requesting for or asking for
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more information as the BATANA oil.
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And Okay. BATANA oil
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is, from the pumpkin nuts.
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And a few of our products do have batana oil. Our
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black soap, our liquid black soap does have batana
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oils in there and batana oils is very
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it's known to help with flawless
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skin, and it also helps with hair growth. So we're
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thinking of maybe having just one line or
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just the oils at the moment. We don't have too much oils on the website,
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but we're going into having body oils, and I think
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we have too at the moment, but batana oil is something that we're going to
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be coming up with soon. But batana oil is in
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our I happen to have 1 here in our
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liquid blood cell. We do have the BATANA oils in there.
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Yeah. Okay. Okay. So the so the to so the oil is
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available in a liquid black soap black soap, which is available
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on the website, isn't Great.
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So those of you The Black Sox do have BATANA Oils. Yeah.
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Okay. Okay. So this is the one. Right? The one you're holding is this one
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right here. Yeah? That's it. Perfect.
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Yeah. So you guys know where to head up. You guys know where to where
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to go. Hodermnaturals.com. We'll have a we'll have a I believe
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we have a discount code for, the podcast listeners where you guys can grab a
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discount. So Yes. We'll make sure that'll be in the podcast or YouTube
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description below so you guys can grab a discount on your shipping
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order wherever you are, in the UK, US, Canada, etcetera. And,
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yeah, make sure make sure you get some of that BATANA BATANA oil in
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there. Alright. Well, brilliant. I mean I mean, there's so there's so many
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products that you do at the moment, And, I think I I just wanted to
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emphasize on the, on the skincare
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line. But I know recently I think this would be a good
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segue. We we did a little collaboration a few months
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ago regarding your your the beards, I think, the men's beards
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beards, beard management and and beard skincare Line,
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would you mind talking talking us briefly through, the men's beard
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and grooming line? Because I because I believe we did a campaign together, which was
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very, very successful on audio and video.
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Yeah. So, recently, I do have
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like lots of gentlemen around me. I have Yeah.
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Voice of my own, so they all wanted
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something. And and having a beard is
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like having facial hair, it has to be taken care of just like
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your hairs on the hairs on your head and even most
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importantly like your beard hair usually you would have
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excess foods and stuff on and if it's not if you don't
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treat your beard hair well you
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could have like rushes on your face and all
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that so we came up with this beard kid line we made it
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very easy because I know most men are very
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there everybody wants something very easy and quick
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so we did this 4 4 process kits so you have the shampoo
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to wash your beard and then you have the conditioner
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just to nourish the hair the hair so you could grow a healthy
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beard You have a choice of either going with your beard
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oil to finish and brush your beard or you could
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go with a beard balm and I find the beard balm
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most people like it to like to
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I don't know what word they use but how to get your massage
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like all prim and proper so we have the be and balm
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for that and it's been we've been very very successful
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selling those. So we also have things for men, of course. Yeah.
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Excellent. Yeah. So so men that are listening or watching, you know, we've
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got something for you as well. So make sure you grab The discount code in
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the podcast or YouTube description below and get yourself some beard
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care products. Alright. Alright. So I think let's,
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let's continue the interview. I think that's a little bit about the products, which
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is something important that we need to talk about. Right, auntie. So
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let's let's talk about more about some of the exciting achievements that that you've done.
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So I know you've been traveling around Africa a little bit. You mentioned you went
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to Ghana recently and, You know, you with your tour company and
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you and you went to the north and you've been able to give back to
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some of the the clinics up there, which is fantastic. Let's talk about your trip
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to Rwanda as a panelist speaker for the World's Intellectual
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Property, event. Congratulations. What was that experience
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like, and and how did that come about? Thank you. Oh
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my God. It it was it
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was very very very exciting and
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very empowering as well as learning
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new things I know when we all start
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we all started a business It was more important to
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get products and just to market the products and
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sell it, but there was one important thing that
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we should all be thinking about and that is to
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have your property protected. I happen
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to know of importance because
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I won an Instagram an Instagram contest
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and I happen to have, an investor
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and mentored me and the first she had a few things to tell
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me but one question she asked was have you trademarked your
00:22:02
company and I was like no and she's like
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well you should because it's very very important too
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and I didn't ask any questions. I did a bit of research, and of course,
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I did trademark my company. So recently, I was
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chatting with a friend who works with
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WIPO, the intellectual property and whilst
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we were talking she asked me she said I hope I see
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all the things they are posting on your social media
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pages but I hope you've protected your company,
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and I said yes I have, and she said oh really, and I said yeah,
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so she said okay I need you because,
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we're having a conference in Rwanda, and
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I need you to be a panelist to come share your story and
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also your branding strategies and stuff like that
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so prior to that I had auditioned for
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dragon's den I auditioned,
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twice. So I had just done my 2nd audition, and the 3rd
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audition was supposed to happen around the time that
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I was going to Rwanda so I sat and I thought
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do I want to go to dragon's den which is a good thing
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or do I want to go to Rwanda to share the story?
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And I thought you know what I'll share the story because then
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I could help and not just empower another woman, I could
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help another woman in
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protecting her company so she doesn't lose the rights to her companies,
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so I chose that and it was very
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empowering. I did learn a lot from them as well as I'm
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hoping they also learned a lot and I continued to learn so after I came
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back from that I also trademarked
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It's my company in Ghana, and I'm hoping to trademark,
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globally as well. Yeah. Excellent. Brilliant.
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I'm glad those 2 went well. So what's the importance
00:24:04
of IP for An entrepreneur,
00:24:08
especially, that has physical products, how important is it?
00:24:11
And what are some of the dangers would you say if someone doesn't take
00:24:15
the time to Get into intellectual property
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for their own products.
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Well there was one story that stuck with me that a
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woman shared during the original conference and
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she had mentioned she I can't remember what it was but I think she
00:24:35
was into a plants a plant based
00:24:38
gluten free flour and hers was
00:24:42
very unusual because I may have heard about from
00:24:46
other plants, but not a particular plant, and I can't remember what it
00:24:49
was, but she said she had a customer from the US who
00:24:53
had been buying from her and of course when she
00:24:57
started her business and she came up with this plant based
00:25:00
flower, she had researched on the product so they've already
00:25:04
researched, it was already certified, it was already
00:25:08
organic and or the certification she needed to
00:25:11
sell, so she was selling this product and this woman would come
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to I think I can't remember if she was from Gambia, So
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this lady from the US would come and purchase from her.
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So she said one time the woman came and she said, why don't we
00:25:27
go and test it in the US and she said no you don't have to
00:25:30
I've already tested it but if you want to test yours and sell it
00:25:34
that's fine but I've tested it and I have my certification
00:25:38
and this woman had not protected her
00:25:42
her idea so of course
00:25:46
the lady went back to the us and she didn't hear from her for a
00:25:49
while she realized that she wasn't coming back to purchase her products
00:25:53
so she called her and the lady was a little bit elusive.
00:25:57
She did a research and found out that not only was the lady
00:26:01
producing the product in the states, She had named it
00:26:06
Wow. What the woman was selling in Ghana, so she had actually
00:26:10
stolen her idea from her, and the woman
00:26:14
had nothing to do because she hadn't,
00:26:18
she didn't have any IP rights to it. So we we heard of
00:26:22
stories like this and how people would come up with
00:26:25
ideas, and we're so excited about our ideas. And of course we run
00:26:29
on social media and go and post it there and there are people
00:26:34
going on social media looking for ideas like this
00:26:38
They have the money. They quickly go and protect it, and then they
00:26:42
start your company. So before your idea as implemented
00:26:46
by herself, somebody else is doing it. So it's very
00:26:50
very very important you have a unique idea, Please
00:26:54
research and make sure you patent the idea.
00:26:59
Yeah. Absolutely. Get it patented, especially if it's a
00:27:03
I mean, I think both physical and digital products are important, but I think more
00:27:06
so physical as well because it's It's it's me a lot
00:27:10
more at risk, I think, with physical products than digital products.
00:27:14
Wow. Mhmm. That's a pow powerful story. Yeah. Powerful story. Wow.
00:27:18
Thanks thanks for sharing. I mean, thanks for sharing. And and what we'll do is
00:27:21
we'll leave links to the w w IPO's, website in
00:27:25
the in the podcast, in the YouTube description.
00:27:28
Alright. So, this has been a great conversation so far.
00:27:32
What I wanted to wrap up with is, what Would you
00:27:36
say is next for her and her naturals?
00:27:41
Sorry. Can you go over the question again? Yeah. So,
00:27:45
so what I would say is what's what's next for HONAM Naturals?
00:27:49
What's what's what what do you have lined up for the future for HONAM
00:27:52
Naturals?
00:27:57
Well just to continue to look for
00:28:01
more stockist where we could have our products
00:28:07
also We continued to collaborate
00:28:11
with other companies and at this time we
00:28:15
had 2 particular, stores that,
00:28:20
those were the dream stores I I wanted to be. And
00:28:24
just this week, we we're speaking to 1 and
00:28:28
we're hoping our products should be in their stores by Christmas
00:28:33
and we just continue to grow You know? And
00:28:36
we hope to be in everybody's bathroom very soon. Yeah.
00:28:40
So fingers crossed it's gonna be a household name, You know, across the world and,
00:28:44
you know, amongst the diaspora and amongst Ghanaians, you know, worldwide, which is exciting
00:28:48
as well. And I know in the past, you've done some some pop ups in
00:28:51
Ghana, haven't you?
00:28:55
I have, but haven't had one for a long. I'm actually looking
00:28:58
into doing a pop up in London because,
00:29:02
most of my customers are there, and of course,
00:29:06
my my haircare line, which is Sizzled,
00:29:10
I have more customers in London. So,
00:29:15
I'm looking into having a pop up there very soon, sometime
00:29:19
next year. Yeah. When it makes sense. Yeah. And I can probably see you
00:29:22
selling alongside, you know, you know, other kind of
00:29:26
African Black sellers as well, maybe in in one of these, you
00:29:30
know, markets where they're selling, you know, black owned products. I can see you in
00:29:33
one of those one of those areas, and I think your products Would would gel
00:29:37
really nice really nicely in those in those kind of, selling
00:29:40
environments. Yeah. Okay. Brilliant. Now we
00:29:44
just joined a few groups. So I think Mhmm. I'm
00:29:47
on Black Economy in the UK. Yeah. I
00:29:51
joined a few of those companies. So Mhmm. Yeah. So I'm sure
00:29:55
there's lots of people in there that you'd be able to,
00:29:58
network with and, you know, maybe collaborate Just to help sell your
00:30:02
products, and I'm sure I'll be able to give you some more contacts and groups
00:30:05
as well when the time comes.
00:30:09
Excellent. Excellent. Well, this is really exciting. It's
00:30:12
good to catch up, auntie, to see how Ho Nam Naturals is going on.
00:30:17
Last of last and but not least, where can everyone, you know, connect with
00:30:23
The honedam Naturals brands order their products and follow honedam Naturals on social media.
00:30:29
Okay so we're on instagram and our
00:30:33
handle is at honam naturals We're
00:30:36
on LinkedIn. We try and share as much as possible on on
00:30:40
LinkedIn. We're able to share more so you get updates on what we're doing
00:30:44
and where we're going and also on facebook
00:30:49
and we always think it's very important that you
00:30:53
could Catch up with us and learn more about the products through our blogs.
00:30:58
Mhmm. However, if you have any questions, you have
00:31:01
our email you could send us the questions and we'll definitely reach out
00:31:05
if it's in regards to her products, it falls in our line we'll
00:31:09
come up with it Excellent. Yeah. So we are interesting. We're
00:31:13
all on our social media pages there. Yeah. It's easy to reach us
00:31:16
there. Excellent. So it's it's honedamnaturals.com. Guys, that
00:31:20
is the website where you can go ahead and make a purchase.
00:31:24
And and, of course, we've talked about the blogs early on in
00:31:27
the conversation, so you guys can go to the website, and you can read the
00:31:30
blogs. You can make a purchase, and you can learn more about the Hohenham Naturals
00:31:34
brand. Alright? Oh, well, auntie, thanks for coming back to your
00:31:38
show. Go on. Before you
00:31:42
go, can I just add, We'd love to hear from we
00:31:46
love feedback and we love to get your reviews
00:31:50
so please when you use the products definitely do not forget to give
00:31:53
us reviews so as small business owners that's what
00:31:57
somebody would look for before they try our product so we'd love to see
00:32:01
your pictures before and after we'd love to see you grow
00:32:05
lengths on your hair and definitely
00:32:09
we'd be happy to have your reviews on our page?
00:32:13
Excellent. And where where would you suggest people leave reviews or where can they leave
00:32:16
reviews?
00:32:20
Underneath each of the products where you purchased you can go underneath
00:32:24
there you can leave a review there you can also send yeah but
00:32:27
you can also post on Google under our name you could post
00:32:31
post a Google review walmart you can post
00:32:35
post a review on walmart amazon Oh, you can send
00:32:39
me your DM me, send it, and I'll
00:32:42
post every Tuesday. I try and post the review.
00:32:46
There we go. There we go. So when you scroll down to the bottom of
00:32:49
their products, you can leave a review over here and,
00:32:53
also in Google Google as well, which is great. And,
00:32:57
I I believe people can send the pictures
00:33:00
of before and after, and they can send
00:33:04
Videos of videos as well. Right?
00:33:08
Yep. Brilliant. Okay. Great. So, yeah.
00:33:12
So we'll leave links to the website where people can leave reviews. We'll leave links
00:33:16
to the Google review page where you can leave a Google review, and we'll leave,
00:33:20
Contact details, we can get get in contact with with Nana and send
00:33:23
a video or before and after a picture of you as well, which will really,
00:33:27
really help the brands. And, of course, this will really, help
00:33:30
yourself as well to see what difference the product is making.
00:33:34
Brilliant. Alright. So once again, guys, I would just remind you, there is
00:33:38
a coupon code in the description below if you're watching or you're listening in
00:33:42
the podcast place where you can grab a a nice little discount,
00:33:46
for for listening to the podcast where you can purchase, the products wherever
00:33:50
you are in the world. Auntie, it's been great having you back on the show.
00:33:54
Thank you so much. Thank you
00:33:57
so much. Have a wonderful day. Bye. Thank you.
00:34:01
Thanks.