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Camille Rose is one of the world’s largest Black-owned and female-led hair care brands on the market. But founder Janell Stephens didn’t always imagine the concoctions she mixed up in her kitchen, for health reasons, would become a world-wide, game-changing success. In conversation with an editor, Stephens will discuss her entrepreneurial journey, how she kept her personal and brand integrity in tact as she scaled over the years, what the future of Camille Rose looks like, and more.
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00:00It's tough, but if you keep a tunnel vision and just stay grounded, like that's the only way.
00:07You got to grow organically. You got to ignore the noise, block out the noise,
00:13like ignore what people are doing around you and just remember, you know, why you started.
00:20Stay focused, stay grounded, and then be okay with growing at your own pace.
00:26And, I mean, when I started Camille Rose, I was formulating everything in my kitchen.
00:31I knew nothing about how to get a laboratory, nothing about any of that.
00:37So I'm all self-taught.
00:39And when I got into the retail stores, most people don't know this,
00:46but I was still hand-making my products for an entire year while I was in Target.
00:52And it nearly wiped me out.
00:56I don't know what I was thinking, like, okay, Target placed one order.
01:01Okay, I got their order. I shipped their order.
01:04I'm like, okay, I'm good. I'm done.
01:06No, orders started coming and coming and coming.
01:10And for an entire year, I was still hand-making my products.
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01:20I'm good.
01:22I'm going to push your work with Sam disappearing.
01:23I love it.
01:23As you can see.
01:24And you don't have to get me.
01:25We'll be right back in, take a little bit.
01:28So if I get the point.
01:29I think it's hard.
01:31I'm not.
01:31I think that sounds right, too.
01:33Tell them about it.
01:33I love a lot.
01:35If I get the point?
01:35Yeah, let's get it.
01:35I love that.
01:36I get the point of time.
01:36I love it.
01:37We'll be right back in, too.
01:39It's easy.
01:39I love it.
01:41It's okay.
01:41I love it.
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