I recently met Donna Browning of Sweaty Bands (www.sweatybands.com) and loved her story of doing her thing! She is living her dream, doing what she loves to do and energizing a host of people along the way.
She started Sweaty Bands from a need she found herself. Let me tell you, she is one tough mama!! and has a career doing exercise related activity, from Personal Training to Yoga, it was during these workouts, that she was getting so irritated with her hair falling on her face, that she decided to find a solution. And a solution she did find. Donna designed head bands with super utility and style. She improved on a product that been around for decades, but took it to the next level and made them much more effective and totally cool and exciting.
What makes her story additionally powerful is that she is not outsourcing her manufacturing to far away lands of cheap labor and other costs. Instead her business model leverages her friends and others locally in the Cincinnati area to manufacture these head bands for her. She is keeping jobs here and is giving people an opportunity to be productive right here at home. What she likes about this model is that it makes her feel connected with people in ways she did not expect, some of these women have come back and thanked her for the opportunity to save their home, with the recession we are in - every dollar earned is put to good use.
Congrats Donna and we wish you all the very best. Here is a pic of Donna with my wife, Shino; that bought a few of them which she will be sending to Tokyo to our friends that do Yoga there.
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