Episode 96:
PJ Jonas is a business owner, goat-wrangler, entrepreneur, and mother. After getting goats to provide healthy milk for her eight children, she decided to put some excess milk into a batch of handmade soap. That decision was the beginning of Goat Milk Stuff, a growing goat milk products business that has been featured on The Today Show, The Doctors, The Huckabee Show, and in O, the Oprah Magazine. This is a great story of how a business was started in her kitchen and grew into a million dollar business that now employs her entire family as well as other employees.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- How ingenuity can arise from simply wanting to help others
- Solving problems as a mother that turned into a million dollar business
- Insider knowledge of entrepreneurship from a successful owner
- Thinking about employees carefully before hiring to promote success
- Understanding your missteps and not letting yourself be defined as a failure
- Why you can’t get it all done and how to seize on the right opportunities
- Maximizing efficiencies and processes through carefully designed systems
- Growing your business at the right pace
- What you need to know about your competition when diversifying your business
- How to be humble and a good listener and why all leaders must be able to do both
- Where you can have a chance get a free bar of soap from Goat Milk Stuff
Ways to contact PJ:
- Website: www.GoatMilkStuff.com
- For a free bar of soap: GoatMilkStuff.com/AbsoluteSoap
- Twitter: @goatmilkstuff