The Building of a Brand with Maggie Ranmu Xue

08/20/19 • 40 min

Episode 105: Maggie Ranmu Xue, founder and CEO of Us Two Tea, shares her thoughts on money, start ups, and launching a tea company.

Guest Biography

Ranmu is the founder & CEO of Us Two Tea. She began her start-up career as the lead designer at Meural, a company that creates digital canvases to allow people to discover and display over 40,000 pieces of digital artwork on their walls. Ranmu's design and pioneering work in the company’s rebrand had major impacts on Meural’s overall success, resulting in the company’s acquisition by NETGEAR in 2018.

After leaving the canvas space, Ranmu is now telling a new story. Through tea and her connection to tea culture, she is building a global community within the West for all the tea lovers to engage in - from farmer to end consumer.

In this episode, you'll learn:

The importance of having a role model
A little about high quality, Asian teas - specifically tea from the island of Taiwan
How to identify a gap, launch a company and build a brand
Bonus: Because Ranmu grew up in Shanghau but now lives in the USA... Insights into Chinese perspectives on money, education and mindset

Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/105

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Episode 105: Maggie Ranmu Xue, founder and CEO of Us Two Tea, shares her thoughts on money, start ups, and launching a tea company.

Guest Biography

In this episode, you'll learn:

The importance of having a role model
A little about high quality, Asian teas - specifically tea from the island of Taiwan
How to identify a gap, launch a company and build a brand
Bonus: Because Ranmu grew up in Shanghau but now lives in the USA... Insights into Chinese perspectives on money, education and mindset

Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/105

Find more from our guest:

Mentioned in this episode:

Runnymede Tip of the Week:

Starting a Mastermind Group

Thanks for Listening!

To share your thoughts:

Leave a note in the comment section below.
Share this show on Twitter or Facebook.
Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn

To help out the show:

Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise.
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Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

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The Evolution of a Mission Venture Capitalist with Joel Solomon

Episode 104: Joel Solomon, founding partner of Renewal Funds and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution, talks about his changing relationship with money and how we can use our money for the greater good.

Guest Biography

Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at over $98m assets under management. Investing in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.”

Joel serves as a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance and speaks frequently throughout North America, including a 2012 TEDxVancouver talk. He is a founding member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Tides Canada Foundation, and is board chair of Hollyhock.

From 1993 to 2008, Joel managed the Family Office activities of Carol Newell. Together, they pioneered an integrated use of capital for social impact that is now growing as a strategy for deep mission investors.

Joel has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SVN and was recently inducted with Carol Newell into the SVN Hall of Fame.

Joel is Co-Author with Tyee Bridge of Clean Money Revolution, a call to action to know where your money is and what it is doing to whom right now, and to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration.

In this episode, you'll learn:

About Joel's shift from a negative to positive relationship with money
The long-term importance of aligning your investing with your values
We'll learn about ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Investing and how your desired legacy can shape your priorities.

Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/104

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renewalfunds.com
Jim Crow
The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism by Joel Solomon and Tyee Bridge

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Creating Content, Building Businesses and Being Unemployable with Jonny Nastor

Episode 106: Jonny Nastor, host of Hack the Entrepreneur, shares why he's unemployable and how to build an audience and different businesses.

Guest Biography

Jon Nastor helps professionals scale and automate their businesses with digital marketing. He is the creator and host of Hack the Entrepreneur, which has received 4.8 million downloads, since its launch in 2014.

Jon is a proud dad, husband and online entrepreneur who loves creating, marketing and selling cool things online.

Even the best products in the world do not sell themselves, it has never happened and it never will. Jon has built his own business and several client’s businesses with his understanding of how to create and build products, and more importantly, take them to market.Unable since birth to settle for how things should be, he constantly aims to satisfy pains and frustrations with products that make people’s life easier.

He is the creator of ShowList.io, a platform for music nerds to collect and share all the bands you’ve seen live.

Jon spent his earlier years traveling coast-to-coast across Canada playing drums in several punk rock bands. Although not a punk in fashion, he has never let go of the D.I.Y. ethic that taught him: if you want something to change, you have to do it, get it done, or stop complaining about it.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How to put a successful team together and Jon's thoughts on the best ownership structure.
The importance of building an audience for your business.
Working through imposter syndrome.

Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/106

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Runnymede Tip of the Week:

Is a US recession coming?

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Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.