Topicals CEO & Founder Olamide Olowe: The Heart Behind the Hype, Running a Company at 26 Years Old, and How She Became the Youngest Black Wo

Hello my beautiful friends and welcome back to Too Smart For This! This week's guest is the incredible Olamide Olowe, CEO and founder of Topicals! Olamide Olowe is a recent graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where she was a pre-Med student and received a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and a minor in Entrepreneurship. In 2015, Olamide co-founded the beauty brand SheaGIRL, in partnership with SheaMoisture. Sundial Brands, parent company of SheaGIRL, was later acquired by Unilever in 2017. Currently, Olamide is the founder and CEO of Topicals, a skincare company transforming the way people feel about skin through effective products for eczema and hyperpigmentation. Olamide is passionate about harnessing the power of culture, technology, and science to improve the relationship between women of color and the beauty industry. She has received notable recognition from Harvard Business School, Google, the PAC12, and the UCLA Alumni Association. The platform she mentioned re: her entrepreneurial advice launches next week, and we will update the show notes then! Follow Olamide: https://www.instagram.com/olamideaolowe/ Follow Topicals: https://www.instagram.com/topicals/ Shop Topicals: https://mytopicals.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2-2eBhClARIsAGLQ2RlbW1Q37-dptyOOUySuM264Qsm2LhaxKxNbMvt_AhYDgNpCi-7bAqYaAj7nEALw_wcB Shop Too Collective: https://toocollective.com/ [use code PODCAST15 for a discount at checkout!] Follow Too Collective: https://www.instagram.com/toocollective/ Follow Alexis: https://www.instagram.com/alexisbarber/ 


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