Ep. 151: Stephanie Laflora, CEO + Co-Founder Of Crownhunt, Developed A Platform To Educate Hair Stylists On Textured + Curly Hair
On this episode of the Friends in Beauty podcast I welcome Stephanie Laflora, CEO + Co-Founder of Crownhunt, to the Friends in Beauty guest chair.
It took being rejected for service at five separate salons due to her 4C textured hair for Stephanie to realize that something was terribly wrong with the beauty industry. Driven to solve the problems of her own customer experience and already a serial entrepreneur, storyteller, marketer, and creator, Stephanie founded Crownhunt to make life easier for people with curly hair while helping under-resourced entrepreneurs thrive.
Alongside her business partner and long time friend, Ryan Holdeman, Stephanie has spent the last decade building multi-sided platforms and working with partners to develop new business models using her background in data-driven product development and strategy. To that end, Crownhunt is a digital marketplace for textured hair, built to help existing hair entrepreneurs reach the 65% of the population with textured hair and to get their products, services, and education to the right people, more effectively. While Stephanie is a seriously driven entrepreneur, she’s also a troublemaker at heart and serious about having fun. When she’s not building her start up, she’s often mentoring other aspiring women entrepreneurs by showing them that life is one big adventure worth betting on.
I absolutely enjoyed my conversation with Stephanie and I’m so excited for what Crownhunt is doing for the beauty industry. In this interview Stephanie shares:
-What it’s like being a woman in tech
-The experiences that led her to create Crownhunt
-The lack of education stylist receive in cosmetology school on texture hair
-How Crownhunt is educating existing hair entrepreneurs
-What is was like quitting her job while pregnant during the pandemic
-Tips on pitching to investors to get them to be generous with the coins
-The benefits of crowdfunding as a financial resource for business
-The national conversation around textured hair and so much more
I’m so excited for you to hear this conversation and for my Friends in Beauty who are stylists to really tap into what Crownhunt is providing. It’s definitely a game changer and there are so many other things rolling out in the future that you should keep an eye out for. Let’s go ahead and jump into this chat with Stephanie and if you prefer to watch our beautiful faces then tune in on YouTube.
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