Today we’d like to introduce you to Lisa Kuntze.
Hi Lisa, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I started out my Entrepreneurial journey after a social media internship in college. I realized the skills I learned were needed by local businesses and began to offer social media management and marketing for local businesses. ECommerce was booming. I realized quickly if I had my own ECommerce business, I now had the skills to be successful with it. I opened my first Dropshipping brand and quickly scaled exponentially, growing a small team and a lean online startup. I loved having the flexibility to travel often with my family and still have the opportunity to work remotely. Digital nomad is my dream retirement plan. Soon I realized high ticket items would have greater profit margins, so I launched two high ticket dropshipping websites, as well. These did very well, too. I wanted to share this business model with other Mothers who desired the time flexible work from home lifestyle, so I built a Mompreneur Mentor course and brand. I had no experience selling digital products and courses, plus I was busy with three brands of my own. While attempting to outsource course marketing and funnel, I was scammed by a con man. Apparently, a notorious one. I reported him to authorities, no one did a thing. I filed lawsuit, representing myself, and won, but wasn’t able to collect the debt owed. During this time my mother had a debilitating stroke and I became her main caregiver during a long miraculous recovery. It took my focus off my business and I soon exited my brands and sold them for a lump sum. I invested the profits and decided I wanted to create my own product. I planned to launch with the help of Founder Institute in Silicon Valley. I was able to graduate the strenuous accelerator program, but the COVID pandemic struck and manufacturing and funding experienced major setbacks. To continue being productive while the business hibernated, I put out my first anthology, Mompreneur Memoirs, on Amazon and it hit the best sellers list! In the meantime, the company, Lovable Curves, became a viral sensation on TikTok. I learned TikTok platform and marketing to add to my arsenal of social media skills. TikTok is now the largest social media platform worldwide and has massive potential for businesses and growth. As a content creator and lifestyle influencer, so many opportunities are open for me. I still continue to consult for startups as an expert in my field, advisor, and influential Female Founder. I enjoy staying in the loop on future tech and the fast pace of startup ecosystems. I find many businesses today fall far behind on technology. I spent the past 7 months deep-diving into Web3 components and blockchain innovations. I quickly made a stronghold in the community and recently was honored to speak on behalf of Women in Web3 at the San Diego NFT convention this past May. I continue to innovate and create multiple streams of revenue for myself through my platforms, consulting, and advising Founders. I strongly believe all people should have multiple streams for financials goals and eventual financial freedom. The business owners of today and entrepreneurs tomorrow are the ones who will build us a better future.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Struggles include balancing mom life, education, parental Illness and just being a woman. Women receive little to no VC Funding, plus hardware fashion products for women are a tough pitch when women are already underrepresented, underserved, and underestimated. Other struggles include dealing with the anxiety and pressure of having a large platform, wanting to keep some form of privacy and safety for my family. Knowing that much of my online “persona” or “skits” are merely acting and don’t represent my greater qualities and that people may misjudge me caused anxiety at first, but at the end of the day, I realized as long as I know my truth – no one else’s opinion matters. I’ve definitely had setbacks with the pandemic, even causing me to relocate to Texas. I am certain all business owners have. Trolls online were also a brief struggle until I simply started ignoring them or clapping back.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I specialize in marketing and startup advising, plus I am a content creator and influencer among several niches. I think what makes me unique is my life background and education in psychology coupled with acting. Since I was 5, I took to entertaining, I was participating in local theater musicals, singing in church, being creative through many arts to express myself. I continued into musical theatre and acting, or modeling, most of my life – so I have never been camera shy. I have an odd but relatable style. Plus, as a neurodiverse individual who is able to entertain and market, while implementing psychology – also knowing the technology skills, makes me very dynamic and I execute at a high level of focus while enjoying learning as a hobby. I think it makes for unique content creator and influencer who can meet any target audience or market where they are at., keeping up with the times and techniques. I’m really proud of my mompreneur memoirs anthology, I was able to highlight diverse, magical supermompreneurs with amazing stories. I would like to turn the anthology into a series to feature female founders and their stories – their stories deserve to be told and written. Women deserve to be empowered and not judged for however they want to be and you can be a sexy beautiful woman who is also intelligent and nerdy and funny too!
Do you have any advice for those looking to network or find a mentor?
Networking is easy if you do it consistently, try to contact 10 new people a day for networking and you’ll start growing your network. Reach out. So many people expect a mentor to come to them. The mentors and online gurus that are actively seeking out mentees and followers are not mentors I would use. I would say reach out to specific mentors in the field or area of business you want to grow in and ask them. Look on Google, LinkedIn, social platforms and reach out. After that it’s just a statistics game – the worse that could happen is someone says no.
Contact Info:
- Email: lovablecurves@gmail.com
- Website: https://Linktr.ee/lovablecurves
- Instagram: https://Instagram.com/lovable.curves
- Twitter: https://Twitter.com/_lovablecurves
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCdXKV5vZNdz8bl-tbM8N1lA
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=ulQMO6_ajLThTGIL09I_1A&utm_source=ishare
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/lovablecurves
- Other: https://pearpop.com/tw/_lovablecurves
