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Raegan Moya-Jones

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first: 2019-08-26
most recent: 2019-08-26
sittings or episodes: 1
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“No, I had a partner. The one person that my husband knew from Australia, his best friend's ex-girlfriend Claudia, who ended up marrying an American guy, and that was the first person I met here and Claudia is Aidan's mum. She was the other co-founder of Aiden and Dene.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I had no supply chain or operational experience or knowledge. I'm a salesperson, you know, so I had to find out how I would even go about making this stuff. And that took a long time. So you had the idea in 2003 when Anae was born and it took... It took till 2006 to actually work out how to make it and get it to market.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So that was, you know, and I just thought every Australian can't have this wrong. And if I introduced this product to American parents, I was just absolutely 100% certain that they would respond to it the same way as us Aussies had.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's like a gauze. And not only was it, in my opinion and still, in my opinion, the only thing you should wrap your baby in because it's lightweight and breathable and big enough to be able to securely swat all the babies. It was the fact that this one blanket did multiple things. So you could use it as a burp cloth. You could use it as a portable crib sheet. You could use it as a nursing cover. You could use it as a stroller cover. You just use it to mop up the messes that are inevitable when you have newborn babies, that sort of thing.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I had my first of my four daughters. That's what happened. I was pregnant with an A and I was, you know, getting ready. And I went out looking for these muslin blankets that were extremely common back home in Australia, so common that you could buy them in supermarkets. It was mind-blowing to me when I went looking for them in the US that they didn't actually exist.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wasn't going to leave it for another job. I think I have always been an entrepreneur. I never defined myself as that. But there was always a desire for me to do something on my own. I just never had an idea. I'd had lots of ideas, but none that I felt were worth sort of, you know, diving in the deep end for.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did have fun I did I love it was it my passion absolutely not and I was very frustrated that I wasn't really taken seriously in terms of being able to be promoted and everything. I was very much sort of kept in my box of what I had always done albeit in different areas of the business over 10 years but that was a huge frustration to me that it was obvious I was never really going to go anywhere within the Economist.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This sounds obnoxious, but I was really good at it. You know, the wonderful thing with sales is you live and die by the number that you are told to hit. And I was very fortunate that I never didn't hit the numbers.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know that I was depressed, I just I didn't know anybody in New York and I just sort of fell into a rut, I think and I underestimated how much I needed to be the person that you know had a very full schedule. So rather than using the downtime productively, I just used the downtime to lay on the couch and watch morning talk shows.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I came here without a job, without a working visa, and I thought, you know what, I'll do some volunteer stuff, I'll learn to speak Spanish because my husband's Chilean and I'll fill my time that way for two years and sort of treat it as just a, you know, a new and different journey rather than being 100 miles an hour with my work and my studies. And that didn't kind of work out for me because about four months in, my husband initially was working from home because, you know, they were really setting things up from the ground here in New York. And he walked into the living room and I was laying on the couch at 11 o'clock in my pajamas, you know, and he just said to me, what the hell are you doing? Come on, you gotta get up and shake this off and find something to do.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Threatened to dissolve the entire company, a company, by the way, with yearly revenue now of over $100 million. So how did she create this company, Aiden and Ana? Well, the story begins when Reagan and her husband Marcos moved from Sydney, Australia to New York in 1997 after he got a job. And Reagan at the time, she didn't really have any plans.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I'd set myself that goal. So I just said right, once I get to a million in revenue, I've done something that most women entrepreneurs aren't able to do.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had read a lot of literature about women entrepreneurs and I had learned the statistic that only 2% of all women owned businesses ever break a million dollar revenue.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you run a company, a lot can change in a year or two, and that is certainly the case for Reagan Moya Jones, whose career took a major turn after we first ran this episode about two years ago. So earlier this month, I called her up to get an up to eight. You'll hear that brand new conversation at the end of this episode, which first aired in twenty seventeen.”
2019-08-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT