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Deep dives with consumer brand operators, plus Alex and Lee breaking down what's working at Hulken right now. Pick a topic and leave with something you can run that week.
49 episodes
▶The Repeat Customer Playbook: How to Build a $1M Brand
Tiffany Chao · AURORO
2026 Black Friday Playbook: How You Can Make Millions in Q4
How to Sell Millions in High-Ticket Products
Kevin Chen · iRESTORE
Learn How to Make Millions
▶How to Go Viral Repeatedly with $0 Marketing
Leah Marcus + Yasaman Bakhtiar · Good Girl Snacks
The Minimum Viable Company: How We Run a $50M Brand With Just 7 People
Alex + Lee · Hulken
How This CPG Founder Went From a Kitchen Experiment to 7,000 Stores
The Hidden Cost of Scaling Our DTC Brand Without VC Money
Alex + Lee · Hulken
How TUSHY Turned a Taboo Category Into One of DTC's Strongest Brands
Justin Allen · TUSHY
Going From $50M to $100M: How We Use Partnerships As Our Biggest Growth Levers at Hulken
Hulken
The DTC Trap That Built Juliet Wine's Retail Empire
Allison Luvera · Juliet Wine
What Most DTC Founders Get Wrong About Entering a Crowded Category
Greta Meyer
The DTC math most founders refuse to do (until it's too late)
Suze Dowling · Pattern Brands
Inside Hulken: How Our CBO Built a $50M Community-Led Luxury Brand
Hulken
How We Built a $50M Consumer Brand with 7 People
Alex + Lee · Hulken
How Dylan Munro Invented a New $130M DTC Category and Built a Factory to Protect It
Dylan Munro
The Bootstrapped DTC Founder's Playbook
Ben Cogan · Beanstalk
Why Most DTC Brands Get Retail Wrong (and How to Fix It)
Nate Rosen · Express Checkout
▶How to Build a DTC Brand That Actually Lasts
Brooke Yoakam
Why the Best DTC Brands Build Slow
Steph Hon · Cadence
Season 2 of Unfinished Business: The Truth About Scaling a Profitable DTC Brand from $0 to $50M
Alex + Lee · Hulken
▶From Side Hustle to Swimwear Empire: The Andie Swim Story
Melanie Travis · Andie Swim
▶Relationships, Intimacy, and Keeping it Together
Alex + Lee
▶How Liz Teich Turned Her Side Hustle Into a Full-Fledged NYC Styling Empire
Liz Teich
▶How to Scale a Brand, Manage Anxiety & Stay Offline
Tieghan Gerard · Half Baked Harvest
▶From Ballet to Balenciaga: Victoria Brito's Unfiltered Story
Victoria Brito
▶Dating, Branding, and the Power of Being Your Damn Self
Alex Sall · ALSALL Studio
▶We Built a $30M Brand Without VC, and We're Just Getting Started
Alex + Lee · Hulken
▶Meet The Founder Who Posted About Her Period & Built a Brand Gen Z Actually Trusts
Nadya Okamoto · August
▶What Ballet Can Teach You About Perfection, Feedback, and Not Falling Apart
Megan Fairchild · NYC Ballet
▶How to Build a Sex Toy Empire Without Selling Your Soul (or Raising VC)
Alexandra Fine · Dame Products
▶The Best Startup Advice You'll Ever Hear (And Why You'll Probably Ignore It)
Jonathan Bush
▶Running Toward Your Dreams
Daniella Rabbani
▶If Your Body Is Screaming at You, Maybe Listen? With Kim Strother
Kim Strother
▶How To Change Your Sex Life From So-So To Spicy
Catalina Garcia · Bonded
▶Building
Isabelle Kenyon · Calibrate
▶How to Deal
Alex + Lee
▶Unlocking the Power of the Pivot: Takeaways from Sarah Schaff's Journey
Sarah Schaff
▶The Power of Asking for Help: Insights from Katharina Hoeftmann Ciobotaru
Katharina Hoeftmann Ciobotaru
▶Build Your Best Year: How We Dominated 2024 With the Power of Manifestation
Alex + Lee
▶The Co-Founder Marriage: How to Find & Keep Your Business Partner(s), With Omri Mendellevich
Omri Mendellevich
▶Purpose, Naivety & the Good Enough Mentality: How to Unlock Early-Stage Growth
Ron Gura
▶How to Channel Badassery In Motherhood, Career & Beyond With Tali Roth
Tali Roth
▶Makeup Artist to Maven: How Rea Ann Silva Built Beautyblender With These 3 Ingredients
Rea Ann Silva · Beautyblender
▶The Making of "Unfinished Business"
Alex + Lee
▶How to Move On When Your Business Fails
Roee Adler
▶How to Manifest Success: Visualization Techniques
Barbara Biziou
▶Aaron Schwartz Shares Unconventional Strategies for Closing Your Next Round
Aaron Schwartz
▶The Subtle Art of Showing Off: Lessons in Mastering Your Personal Brand from Patrice Poltzer
Patrice Poltzer