Suzanne Boyd & Kristy Fears | Thanks Mom Co.
Host Chelsea Smith interviews Tulsa small-business owners Kristy Fears and Suzanne Boyd of Thanks, Mom Co., discussing how they met on a blind double date, became close friends, and had first babies five days apart. They share backgrounds in missions and pharmacy, then explain their product: a two-part stain-removal system with a patent-pending handheld silicone scrub base and a six-ingredient, tallow-based stain stick designed to avoid harmful chemicals and be safe for baby clothes. Suzanne left pharmacy in 2025 to run the business full time, and they describe extensive prototyping, family involvement, and the challenge of entrepreneurship having no finish line.
Show Notes:
Guests: Suzanne Boyd & Kristy Fears | Founders of Thanks Mom Co.
Instagram: @thanks_mom_co
Website: https://thanksmomco.com
00:00 Welcome to Tulsa
01:16 How They Met
01:47 Pregnant Together
02:23 Chelsea Spray Tan Story
03:11 Christy Background Abroad
04:56 Suzanne Pharmacy Journey
06:14 Two Part Stain System
08:15 Starting Thanks Mom Co
09:57 Six Ingredient Formula
13:02 Brand Meaning and Mom Tribute
14:10 Amazon Sellout Moment
14:22 Sold Out To Restock
14:52 10 Percent Giveback
15:02 Crisis Pregnancy Outreach
16:25 Prototype Version Chaos
17:18 Kitchen Lab And Kids
18:18 No Finish Line
19:49 Future Products And Sales
21:26 Five Star Review Reel
25:01 Giveaway And Wrap Up
Transcript:
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[00:00:44] Chelsea: Good morning, Tulsa. Happy Friday. My name is Chelsea Smith and I’m so happy that you are here with us today. We’re gonna have a lot of fun learning about a small business, um, right here in Tulsa. So hopefully you laugh a little bit more than we’ve [00:01:00] already been giggling since we got started and you learned something new.
[00:01:03] Chelsea: So. Today my friends are here from Thanks, mom Co. And I have Christie. And I have Suzanne. Thank you for coming. You so much. I’m So now we’re gonna play Shark Tank. So how did you two meet?
[00:01:23] Suzanne: Well, we met through a mutual friend. Christie had just moved to Tulsa. Oh. And so her friend from college was like, oh, I know some newlyweds in Tulsa.
[00:01:30] Suzanne: You guys should get together. And so they set us up on a blind double date.
[00:01:33] Chelsea: Oh,
that’s
[00:01:33] Suzanne: fun. So we literally went to their apartment. Did you live in an apartment condo? You picked
[00:01:38] Kristy: us up
[00:01:39] Suzanne: from our apartment. We picked him up and that was first meeting. Nice to meet.
[00:01:42] Kristy: Yes.
[00:01:42] Chelsea: Oh, that’s exciting.
[00:01:43] Suzanne: Yeah. So
[00:01:44] Chelsea: it’s been
[00:01:44] Kristy: a few years.
[00:01:45] Suzanne: It’s uh, that was 12 years ago.
[00:01:47] Chelsea: Wow.
[00:01:47] Kristy: So soon after the double date, we actually started be like going and praying together at a coffee shop like chalks, and we got pregnant really quickly. Each
[00:01:57] Chelsea: of you? Yes.
[00:01:57] Kristy: Both of us got pregnant together at the same time, like at the [00:02:00] same time. Had babies five days apart.
[00:02:01] Chelsea: You pray together,
[00:02:02] Kristy: you
[00:02:02] Chelsea: get pregnant together.
[00:02:04] Kristy: I
[00:02:04] Suzanne: know I could have gone really poorly because I was like, if you wanna pray for me, my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for a while and we haven’t been able to get pregnant. And she was like, we’re actually trying to get pregnant. And then we both
[00:02:14] Chelsea: First babies.
[00:02:15] Suzanne: First babies, they were born five days apart.
[00:02:17] Chelsea: Seriously.
[00:02:18] Kristy: Five days apart.
[00:02:19] Suzanne: Yes.
[00:02:19] Chelsea: Well, this is beautiful.
[00:02:20] Suzanne: November 5th and 10th. Yes.
[00:02:23] Chelsea: Do you remember, remember how you met me, Suzanne?
[00:02:25] Suzanne: Um, after a spray tan.
[00:02:27] Chelsea: That’s right. I’m like, I’m
[00:02:30] Suzanne: like, if you want me to out, you,
[00:02:31] Chelsea: I was very brown. ’cause when you get a spray tan, you get like a coat that they spray a bronze coat to see what they’re spraying.
[00:02:40] Chelsea: So I don’t know what I, I look like an loompa to you. It’s the
[00:02:44] Suzanne: dark.
[00:02:45] Chelsea: You’re
[00:02:45] Suzanne: walking out of the house.
[00:02:46] Chelsea: Yeah. Like, oh, there’s
[00:02:48] Suzanne: another,
[00:02:48] Chelsea: a new face. Hello. So, yeah. I’m glad that that is, you saw me at my most vulnerable state,
[00:02:54] Suzanne: but not during this break. Tan.
[00:02:55] Chelsea: Not
[00:02:56] Suzanne: You were close.
[00:02:57] Chelsea: No, it was less vulnerable than news.
[00:02:59] Chelsea: It could have
[00:02:59] Suzanne: been. [00:03:00]
[00:03:00] Chelsea: I’m glad that, I’m glad that, um, I got to see you and, and I think I was like, hi, bye. I’m orange. I’m outta here. Or brown, not orange, purple. I was super brown, but. Anyway. Okay, so Christy, tell me about your background.
[00:03:14] Kristy: My background. So I have lived in Tulsa for about 13 years, so Tulsa’s my home.
[00:03:19] Kristy: Um, before I moved to Tulsa, I was in missions. So I lived overseas for a couple years and then. Pretty much came back here, got pregnant and have been a stay at home mom since Wow. Until two years ago. So yeah, I have a lot of experience of doing laundry and house work. But Where, where were
[00:03:37] Chelsea: you living for the longest overseas?
[00:03:39] Kristy: Um, I lived in South Korea for a year. I lived in Africa for about six months. Lived in Nepal for a couple months, uh, Hawaii.
[00:03:47] Chelsea: Goodness, for six months. Oh my goodness.
[00:03:48] Kristy: Yeah. So
[00:03:48] Chelsea: they may not have your standard washer and dryer in some of those places. You’re
[00:03:52] Kristy: right.
[00:03:52] Chelsea: So you probably have some. Memories of clothes line.
[00:03:56] Chelsea: Clothes lines.
[00:03:57] Kristy: Oh yeah, we did. We did a lot of laundry on the roof of [00:04:00] Nepal.
[00:04:00] Chelsea: Really?
[00:04:00] Kristy: Yeah.
[00:04:01] Chelsea: Were your hand washing in a SUD bucket or,
[00:04:04] Kristy: absolutely. Yeah. Really? Africa and Nepal. We did SUD buckets.
[00:04:07] Chelsea: Really?
[00:04:08] Kristy: Yeah. And,
[00:04:09] Chelsea: and then hung them up to
[00:04:10] Kristy: dry and hung them
[00:04:11] Chelsea: up dry, hung to dry. I didn’t even know this.
[00:04:12] Kristy: Yes.
[00:04:13] Chelsea: With, I wanna know, like a clothes pen with twine.
[00:04:17] Chelsea: Are you draping them over
[00:04:18] Kristy: clothes, pens, and draping?
[00:04:19] Chelsea: Yeah. Were you ever thinking to yourself. Well, this is hard.
[00:04:23] Kristy: Uh, I think the way they live is very hard in general. Okay. A lot less efficient, but at the same time, there’s a simplicity that’s beautiful.
[00:04:31] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:04:31] Kristy: So there,
[00:04:32] Chelsea: wow.
[00:04:33] Kristy: Pros and cons to it.
[00:04:34] Chelsea: And now you’ve been, Tulsa is home.
[00:04:36] Kristy: Tulsa is home to
[00:04:38] Chelsea: you. Okay, good.
[00:04:39] Kristy: I kicked and screamed coming here a little bit ’cause I’m from Texas and had never love it. Been to Oklahoma.
[00:04:44] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:04:44] Kristy: But now I’m like, I can’t imagine ever moving away.
[00:04:47] Chelsea: It’s a good place.
[00:04:48] Kristy: It’s a wonderful place. It
[00:04:48] Chelsea: is. I love a good place to be. And I’m from Texas and now Tulsa is my home.
[00:04:52] Chelsea: Yes. And I can’t imagine leaving here either.
[00:04:55] Kristy: Yeah.
[00:04:56] Chelsea: Okay. So Suzanne, tell me about your background.
[00:04:58] Suzanne: I’m from Tulsa. So it [00:05:00] was a little bit easier. Okay. Yeah, I didn’t have to, I was, you
[00:05:03] Chelsea: didn’t have to start out.
[00:05:04] Suzanne: I mean, I entered Tulsa crying, I’m sure, but was born here and everybody
[00:05:09] Chelsea: came to Tulsa crying and they didn’t wanna leave.
[00:05:11] Chelsea: Yes. Okay. Got it.
[00:05:13] Suzanne: Um, but yeah, so I’ve lived here my whole life and it’s absolutely home for me. And, um, I went to. OU for my pharmacy degree.
[00:05:23] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:05:23] Suzanne: Um, so I have been in and out of pharmacy for the past 10 years. I have four kids. Oh. So I’ve worked as a pharmacist taking breaks as I’ve had children and then gone back to work and, um, kind of in and out of pharmacy until, like she said, 2025 was the year that I.
[00:05:41] Suzanne: Was officially stepped out of pharmacy and quit working as a pharmacist to start this business.
[00:05:47] Chelsea: Wow.
[00:05:48] Suzanne: So all done with pharmacy now. That’s amazing. I’ll keep my license up to date, but this business is my full-time gig.
[00:05:54] Chelsea: Is that a lot of CE to do?
[00:05:57] Suzanne: It’s 15 hours a year, so,
[00:05:59] Chelsea: okay. [00:06:00] I ha I, I have a pharmacist that I call about every single thing.
[00:06:05] Suzanne: Uhhuh,
[00:06:05] Chelsea: like, can I have this Uhhuh? My child weighs 47 pounds. Uhhuh, can you do the math? So I think they’ve probably been avoiding me, but I still call them. Okay. So your product is a stain stick remover. It doesn’t cost stains. It’s removes yes. Stain stick remover.
[00:06:21] Kristy: Yes, yes, yes.
[00:06:22] Chelsea: So why a stick instead of a spray?
[00:06:25] Kristy: Okay, so it is a stain removal system is kind of more how we phrase it. Oh. It’s a two part process.
[00:06:30] Chelsea: Got
[00:06:30] Kristy: it. So it’s a patent pending scrub base, which is silicone and it, it mimics like the old washboard
[00:06:37] Chelsea: like in Nepal,
[00:06:37] Kristy: like in Nepal or in Africa. Yes. So it’s, um, that is what we have a patent pending on.
[00:06:43] Chelsea: Love it.
[00:06:44] Kristy: And then we also have the stain stick, which is only six natural ingredients, but it’s in a. Um, a stick. I’m sorry. No, you’re good. Just that you can hold without getting your hands all stinky.
[00:06:58] Chelsea: Yes.
[00:06:58] Kristy: Because I feel like [00:07:00] both of our moms inspired this product. Okay. Which is part of the reason the thanks Mom co.
[00:07:04] Kristy: Um, but her mom had a. A special stainer mover secret that she had shared with both of us actually, and that we tried to like, improve upon and, um, make it smell good. And, um, my mom had kind of given a little bit of an idea for this for me. And so, yeah, it’s a, we call it. A two part system and um, it’s kind of like in a category of one because there’s really nothing else like it.
[00:07:27] Chelsea: That’s true. So,
[00:07:29] Kristy: yeah.
[00:07:29] Chelsea: Mm-hmm.
[00:07:29] Kristy: I mean, yeah, there’s
[00:07:30] Suzanne: no other washboards out there.
[00:07:31] Kristy: No one one’s selling washboards anymore.
[00:07:33] Chelsea: But we’re like, no one’s selling washboards. How do It makes it a little fun because I use it all the time. Does,
[00:07:38] Suzanne: yes.
[00:07:38] Chelsea: And you do feel like you’re having this retro moment.
[00:07:41] Suzanne: Yes.
[00:07:42] Chelsea: You’re like, oh, look at me.
[00:07:43] Chelsea: I’m one
[00:07:44] Suzanne: of Christy’s college friends sent. A picture of her child using it as a tether. Like her baby is like,
[00:07:49] Chelsea: oh yes.
[00:07:49] Suzanne: They’re like, perfect baby Tether is,
[00:07:52] Chelsea: well, it doubles as a baby tether.
[00:07:54] Suzanne: You’re feeling because like a fun little like fidget toy almost.
[00:07:57] Chelsea: Oh yeah. But it
[00:07:57] Kristy: has purpose. It’s not a fidget,
[00:07:59] Chelsea: but Yes.[00:08:00]
[00:08:00] Chelsea: But it can be a little asmr ter. It can be a teether or rinse. Rinse it before you teeth with it.
[00:08:05] Kristy: Yes, please. And that we put it in the wash every time we use it. So,
[00:08:08] Chelsea: oh, you throw it in the washer, throw
in
[00:08:10] Kristy: the wash and
[00:08:10] Chelsea: wash it.
[00:08:10] Kristy: Sanitize it.
[00:08:12] Chelsea: Oh, well I didn’t know that stuff. Okay. Do you wanna tell me a little bit of more about this, this inspiration and when you’re like, you know what, I think I want to, I think I wanna do this.
[00:08:24] Chelsea: You wanna tell me that story?
[00:08:26] Kristy: Go ahead. It was Christy’s idea.
[00:08:28] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:08:29] Kristy: I’ll
[00:08:29] Suzanne: not take any credit for the beginning
[00:08:31] Kristy: steps. Well, I had the idea, but obviously I. I can’t do anything alone. I like need a buddy slash partner to dream, um, life’s better with a friend. Oh my goodness. So much better. And I approached Suzanne ’cause she is like the most, the hardest working person I’ve ever met.
[00:08:49] Kristy: And I was just like, Hey, I have this idea. What do you think? And she was like, let me think about it for a little while. And so she did. And then, um, I was in a big [00:09:00] transition in my life at the moment and was excited to try something new and, um. I feel like she was like, let’s do it. And so we started dreaming together and created this, um, together as a whole and we just went for it and we haven’t looked back.
[00:09:16] Chelsea: Wow.
[00:09:16] Kristy: I feel like it’s, besides
[00:09:18] Chelsea: wanting to quit daily, we haven’t looked back. Besides, besides daily saying I give up.
[00:09:22] Kristy: Yes.
[00:09:23] Chelsea: We have not looked back. Yes.
[00:09:26] Kristy: But we really just jumped in like Yeah. Head first and we were like, we’re just gonna do it. And she quit her job to do this full-time.
[00:09:32] Chelsea: That’s amazing.
[00:09:33] Kristy: I just,
[00:09:34] Chelsea: what a bond you guys need to get.
[00:09:35] Chelsea: Like little washing machine. Tag, tattoo
[00:09:37] Kristy: tooth. Yes.
[00:09:37] Chelsea: Maybe you already have a lower back washing machine. We don don’t. And you just don’t tell anyone about it.
[00:09:42] Suzanne: I’m gonna
[00:09:43] Kristy: touch that one away.
[00:09:43] Chelsea: Sud sisters.
[00:09:45] Kristy: Okay.
[00:09:46] Chelsea: Hashtag reist.
[00:09:48] Kristy: Rename our text.
[00:09:49] Chelsea: Okay. Love that Text
[00:09:51] Suzanne: together.
[00:09:52] Chelsea: The Sud sisters. The Sud Sea Sisters. Uh, you.
[00:09:57] Chelsea: You decided that you’re ready to [00:10:00] just go up against these giants of the industry. Mm-hmm. Which you are set apart because you’re a system, two part system, but what else sets you apart? Tell me about these six ingredients. Don’t tell me what the ingredients are.
[00:10:11] Suzanne: It’s on secret. We posted it on, we posted on Amazon, posted our website because we post the ingredients.
[00:10:15] Suzanne: At first, we were like, well, it’s our proprietary blend. Okay. But people, I mean, people who care about ingredients, they’re like, but what is it? And so I’m like, okay. All right. Let, we’ll, just, they’re, no one’s gonna sit it, like sit and make it, right? I mean, if they are more power to ’em, but we still have a patent on the scrub base, so.
[00:10:31] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:10:31] Suzanne: Um, but it’s just oils, water, and then lie, which is natural soap and tallow. It’s tallow based more than anything. So yeah, there’s just six ingredients, so we feel so good about it because there’s no parabens and phthalates. Is that how you decided to say it? Yes,
[00:10:47] Chelsea: yes.
[00:10:47] Suzanne: But um, yeah, it’s just oils, water, tallow.
[00:10:50] Chelsea: No
[00:10:51] Suzanne: Pelu
[00:10:51] Chelsea: oils. No dyes.
[00:10:52] Suzanne: No. There’s grapefruit essential oil to make it smell more.
[00:10:55] Chelsea: No funky colors. It doesn’t come out blue. It doesn’t come out green. Nope. [00:11:00] Which, why? Why do we care about no parabens? Why do we care about,
[00:11:04] Suzanne: no. Well, the more research they do, they say they’re all hormone disruptors that they’re messing with.
[00:11:09] Suzanne: What people’s natural hormones would do. And if you, your skin is your greatest organ in your body. I mean, I don’t want a pharmacist geek out on you, but your skin is your biggest organ,
[00:11:19] Chelsea: right?
[00:11:19] Suzanne: Uh, your skin is how you absorb most things. And so it’s really important to think about what you’re putting on your skin.
[00:11:25] Suzanne: And we, um, we’ve gotten such good feedback about people using it on baby clothes and baby blowouts and food stains. And so it was really important to us. For it to be totally safe to put on your skin. So it just has natural soap and tallow and water and oils. Um, so yeah, so that’s part of what sets us apart is just that it’s six ingredients and we think a lot of natural products don’t work as well because they don’t have the chemicals
[00:11:51] Kristy: right.
[00:11:51] Suzanne: But our washboard that you can hold in your hand or sit on the counter, gives you friction to make it work even better so that you can really dig into stains. [00:12:00] So it felt like a whole new idea and. Like she said, we were inspired by our moms and we felt like it was like an ode to what people used to do.
[00:12:09] Suzanne: Like, you know, she’s hanging laundry in Nepal on clotheslines, but people used to wash laundry by hand and everyone used to have a washboard. Mm-hmm. But this is our modernized handheld washboard. Right.
[00:12:21] Chelsea: And we’re saying, thanks, mom.
[00:12:22] Suzanne: Yes, thanks mom, for doing all these thankless acts. For doing all the laundry.
[00:12:27] Suzanne: Doing all the laundry. Like nobody is, nobody tells me thank you for the laundry. I mean, my husband does sometimes, but aren’t
[00:12:30] Chelsea: any, are any dads calling in saying,
[00:12:32] Suzanne: no,
[00:12:33] Chelsea: I’ve done some laundry?
[00:12:34] Suzanne: No, I mean,
[00:12:35] Chelsea: dads have
[00:12:35] Suzanne: definitely told me that they’ve used
[00:12:37] Chelsea: it. Okay. Okay. I don’t if they’re fishing for a compliment or, so my brother,
[00:12:42] Suzanne: we were like, when we were first beginning stages, we were like, well, should we make it pink because we don’t wanna exclude men.
[00:12:47] Suzanne: And my brother was like. No dudes
are
[00:12:49] Chelsea: laundry. Laundry.
[00:12:50] Suzanne: No dudes are doing
[00:12:51] Chelsea: laundry. And if they’re pretty, don’t
[00:12:52] Suzanne: care that it’s pink.
[00:12:54] Chelsea: It’s, it’s like a, is mov the right color?
[00:12:56] Kristy: I’m
[00:12:57] Chelsea: kind of color. Yes. That’s what we were going
[00:12:58] Kristy: for.
[00:12:58] Chelsea: But it’s mauve and it [00:13:00] says Thanks MoCo on the back. It does. And
[00:13:02] Kristy: so this is, we haven’t gotten into this, but.
[00:13:04] Kristy: This is mainly inspired by her late mother.
[00:13:07] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:13:07] Kristy: Um, but this is her handwriting we copied from letters. So yeah, she has
[00:13:10] Chelsea: really nice handwriting.
[00:13:11] Kristy: She has beautiful handwriting and Christ
[00:13:13] Suzanne: Christy kind of did that as a, as a surprise for me. She, uh, employed a friend to trace some letters my mom had written, which is really special and sweet again.
[00:13:23] Suzanne: So my mom passed away as Christie was going through. Her big life transition. Okay. And so it was kind of a good point for us both. Um, you know, I was shocked. My mom passed away at 68 just in her sleep at home. Oh gosh. Um, so it was really shocking, really traumatic. Um, so this has just been a beautiful way to tribute to mom’s in general to my mom, have her handwriting.
[00:13:44] Suzanne: And Christie’s mom really inspired just as much of the product as well. So, and it’s all moms that work so hard. Or doing laundry for their family.
[00:13:52] Kristy: Yeah.
[00:13:52] Chelsea: Oh my goodness.
[00:13:53] Kristy: One of our core values is gratitude. So it’s also just to be like mom’s everywhere. You guys are killing it. And just to give a little bit [00:14:00] of a love it.
[00:14:01] Kristy: We encourage you when you want to help empower you, make laundry a little easier.
[00:14:05] Chelsea: Oh my gosh,
[00:14:05] Kristy: I love you.
[00:14:06] Chelsea: Well, that’s really beautiful. Thank you. I love that. Thank you. I love that story. I love the why and clearly. You guys are crushing it. ’cause I saw that you sold out on Amazon.
[00:14:17] Kristy: We did. That’s
[00:14:17] Chelsea: which is probably like a surreal.
[00:14:19] Kristy: It was great. Really? That was
[00:14:21] Chelsea: a really
[00:14:21] Kristy: fun season. It was a really
[00:14:23] Chelsea: fun day. I remember asking you if you could do a giveaway for Yes. A event or something. And I’m like, Hey, can you gimme another one of those boxes? ’cause Christie’s giving me giveaways for different things, very philanthropic. And she goes, well, we’re sold out.
[00:14:38] Chelsea: And I’m like. Didn’t you just launch? So congratulations on Thank
[00:14:43] Suzanne: you.
[00:14:43] Chelsea: But you’re back. You’re back to being available. We’re
[00:14:45] Suzanne: back. We have it in stock.
[00:14:48] Chelsea: Okay. Okay. Um, so. I see on the packaging you have this 10% give back message. Yeah. Do you wanna tell me a little bit about who or what you’re giving back to?[00:15:00]
[00:15:00] Suzanne: I’ll let you answer this.
[00:15:00] Chelsea: You want me to? Okay.
[00:15:02] Suzanne: Um, well, our first organization is Crisis Pregnancy Outreach, which is Tulsa based.
[00:15:09] Chelsea: I was gonna say that’s
[00:15:11] Suzanne: so
[00:15:11] Chelsea: I knew it was Oklahoma. So it’s Tulsa
[00:15:12] Suzanne: based? Yes. Yes. It’s Tulsa based. It’s started at Christian Chapel, which is at like 76 Memorial. It was in their church and now they have their own building.
[00:15:20] Suzanne: Um. Near one of the union centers. Okay. Can be like sixth and seventh Grade Center, eighth grade center. Okay. Um, but Christ Pregnancy Outreach is a Tulsa based ministry that comes alongside pregnant women who weren’t expecting to get pregnant. And they give them resources and parenting classes and counseling.
[00:15:37] Suzanne: They will help them pay for trade school. Oh wow. Like, they’re like, I can’t afford, I support this. I need job, this baby job. They’ll help them go to cosmetology school or, um, anything they’re interested in, like coding classes. Wow. Or, um, they really come alongside. Women who weren’t planning on getting pregnant and help them care for their lives and their baby, and, um, they also provide adoption services if.[00:16:00]
[00:16:00] Suzanne: Keeping the baby at home with them is not going to be a good option. So it’s just a really special organization. It’s Tulsa based. They’ve done so much for the Tulsa community and just meant a lot for us.
[00:16:10] Kristy: Both of us have personally known people that have used that as a resource, and it’s near and dear to our heart.
[00:16:15] Kristy: Like crisis pregnancy
[00:16:16] Chelsea: outreach is taking care
[00:16:17] Kristy: of moms. Absolutely.
[00:16:18] Suzanne: Yes. Full circle.
[00:16:19] Kristy: Yes.
[00:16:19] Suzanne: Yeah,
[00:16:20] Chelsea: I love
[00:16:20] Suzanne: that. So it’s really an amazing ministry in Tulsa has done so much.
[00:16:25] Chelsea: Okay, so tell me if you can,
[00:16:28] Kristy: mm-hmm.
[00:16:29] Chelsea: And don’t say one how many versions until this thing was ready to roll.
[00:16:34] Kristy: We spent,
[00:16:35] Chelsea: if you say one, I’m gonna be like, how’d you do that?
[00:16:37] Kristy: No, we
[00:16:39] Chelsea: version a version beta. Is it? Is it too many?
[00:16:42] Kristy: Funny I don’t say that. No. I was gonna say we were super disorganized. We tried to be organized. But I look back and we just were laughing. Like I think we had version A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3, 4. Like we didn’t even keep it. You
[00:16:53] Suzanne: were keeping the same. And then we started doing like a one, A two, A three.
[00:16:57] Kristy: We’re like, what was,
[00:16:58] Suzanne: what number are we
[00:16:58] Kristy: on? I know. [00:17:00] I was like,
[00:17:00] Suzanne: was that four B four or a four? Or just four because we had all variations of four. Right.
[00:17:05] Kristy: So we definitely tried quite a few. Um, we did land on one of our earlier versions of our
[00:17:09] Suzanne: favorite, but we definitely kept
[00:17:11] Chelsea: exploring maybe B one, B two.
[00:17:12] Chelsea: Maybe
[00:17:13] Suzanne: we, we don’t know.
[00:17:14] Chelsea: Oh,
[00:17:14] Suzanne: B one sounds right.
[00:17:15] Chelsea: It was version B one. Got
[00:17:18] Suzanne: it. But then we, I, I would be like typing as she was mixing and I’m like, wait, wait, wait. How many drops did you add of the cent oil? Right.
[00:17:24] Chelsea: So
you’re
[00:17:25] Chelsea: just sitting there like
[00:17:26] Suzanne: in the
[00:17:26] Kristy: kitchen?
[00:17:27] Chelsea: In the kitchen,
[00:17:28] Suzanne: yeah. Making the soap. Making the
[00:17:29] Kristy: soap.
[00:17:29] Chelsea: Really?
[00:17:30] Kristy: Yes. We actually bought glue sticks, emptied out the purple glue, washed them out and filled it with our solution and let ’em cure, and then tested ’em out in lots of different variations.
[00:17:40] Chelsea: Oh, that’s kind of exciting.
[00:17:41] Kristy: Yeah.
[00:17:41] Chelsea: Were the kids coming in? Oh,
[00:17:43] Kristy: yeah. Kids have been part of our journey this entire time.
[00:17:47] Kristy: Touch that. We’ve had Zoom meetings where her son came in in an inflatable dinosaur. Too.
[00:17:52] Suzanne: In the
[00:17:52] Kristy: background. In the background. And we were like, we can embrace this or we can freak out. And we were like, we panned the video to her [00:18:00] son. We were just laughing about it. And the person we were talking to was super gracious.
[00:18:03] Kristy: Oh gosh. But we were just like, this is, thanks mom Co. We are moms. We have seven kids between us, our kids love each other, so we’re together a lot.
[00:18:10] Chelsea: Yeah.
[00:18:10] Kristy: Um, but yeah, they’ve helped us package boxes to ship out. They’ve been a part of it. It’s been really fun.
[00:18:16] Chelsea: That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Okay, so what’s one of the biggest setbacks?
[00:18:21] Chelsea: That you wish you could have avoided if I’d only known that you wanna share?
[00:18:28] Suzanne: I would say, I was telling Christie this yesterday. I guess just realizing that there will be no, there is no. Finish line.
[00:18:39] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:18:39] Suzanne: Like it’s just like,
[00:18:40] Chelsea: it’s just a journey.
[00:18:41] Suzanne: It’s just a journey.
[00:18:42] Chelsea: You’re like, this is never ending.
[00:18:44] Suzanne: Yeah, it’s never ending.
[00:18:45] Chelsea: I guess we can’t,
[00:18:46] Suzanne: I guess we just do this every day. Okay. Um, I don’t think I had my head quite wrapped.
[00:18:52] Chelsea: Eventually someone’s gonna come along and pay you a billion dollars.
[00:18:56] Suzanne: Okay. Well that’s the
[00:18:57] Chelsea: finish line.
[00:18:59] Suzanne: [00:19:00] Manifest
[00:19:00] Chelsea: that. Yeah.
[00:19:01] Suzanne: I feel like I’ve listened to podcasts of so many entrepreneurs and creators, and like the girl who created Nicks is the one I listened to the other day.
[00:19:08] Suzanne: Okay. Nicks that like eyeliner lip pencil. Oh, anyway,
[00:19:12] Chelsea: shout out
[00:19:13] Suzanne: Nicks. It’s, I know the second they sell their company, they’re like, well. Now
[00:19:18] Chelsea: what? Now what?
[00:19:19] Suzanne: You know, like they’re all like, oh, I just sold my baby. That’s
[00:19:22] Chelsea: when you’re gonna be on your yacht
[00:19:25] Suzanne: in Theran. I don’t think entrepreneurs really do that.
[00:19:27] Suzanne: I think they like start over. I was
gonna
[00:19:29] Kristy: say, they probably just,
[00:19:30] Suzanne: Bobby Brown now has Jones Road. Like they just like interesting. Recreate their next
[00:19:36] Kristy: well’s. Why
[00:19:37] Suzanne: That’s Yeah,
[00:19:37] Kristy: go ahead.
[00:19:38] Suzanne: No, I just mean like, I guess I didn’t know going into an entrepreneurial journey that like the journey never really ends.
[00:19:45] Suzanne: Yes. Maybe the company ends, but then you like, want to keep going with something.
[00:19:49] Chelsea: That was kind of my last question was, is there anything on the horizon? Is there a sister product or a cousin? Oh, is it an, is it, I’m
[00:19:58] Suzanne: just,
[00:19:58] Chelsea: is it an incubator? [00:20:00] Okay. We can’t know about
[00:20:01] Suzanne: it. So we
[00:20:01] Chelsea: did 2.95 B beta X, X, Y, Z.
[00:20:05] Kristy: Yeah.
[00:20:06] Kristy: Does
[00:20:06] Chelsea: that happen with
[00:20:07] Kristy: an X or with a Y? But I didn’t write it down. So
[00:20:11] Chelsea: like, if your, if your wheels are turning about what is, what else are we gonna add to this?
[00:20:15] Kristy: I feel like we have too many ideas. We
[00:20:16] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:20:17] Kristy: Um, we have been told so many times, like, focus on one product by a lot of people that we’ve trusted.
[00:20:21] Kristy: Okay. So we’re trying to like, stay honed in.
[00:20:24] Chelsea: Okay.
[00:20:25] Kristy: But we keep talking about all of the other ideas we have. That would be really exciting. We
[00:20:29] Chelsea: can’t wait. We can’t wait to see
[00:20:32] Kristy: what, probably
[00:20:32] Suzanne: 2026. Will have more products. Oh,
[00:20:34] Chelsea: that’s perfect.
[00:20:35] Suzanne: Yeah,
[00:20:35] Chelsea: it’s coming down. It’s the
[00:20:36] Suzanne: holiday,
[00:20:37] Kristy: well, not like January, but like
[00:20:40] Chelsea: 2026.
[00:20:40] Chelsea: You’ll see a whole. Got it. I know that you can get 10% off if you sign up for your email. Yes. Yes. Do you think down the pipeline there’s gonna be any Black Friday specials?
[00:20:51] Kristy: There
[00:20:51] Chelsea: are for sure.
[00:20:53] Kristy: Black Friday will be our biggest sale of the year
[00:20:55] Chelsea: because teachers. They love your Starbucks gift card for your [00:21:00] Christmas present, but they do laundry every day and kids are coming up and touching them and putting Cheetos on their clothes or
[00:21:07] Suzanne: my nightmare,
[00:21:08] Chelsea: all the different things that teachers are experiencing, like why not get them a stain stick?
[00:21:11] Suzanne: Yeah.
[00:21:12] Chelsea: And it is a literal stocking stuffer because. It could fit Well, if you took it apart, Uhhuh, you could drop it down on the stocking. That’s true for
[00:21:18] Suzanne: sure.
[00:21:18] Chelsea: But if you didn’t wanna stocking stuff, it, you could wrap it. And some people’s stockings have presence coming out of this. Yes, yes. It just depends on what kind of family you are.
[00:21:26] Chelsea: So, um, let’s wrap up with, uh, some of your five star reviews. Oh, okay. We have a shout out for Lululemon. Sometimes when you have a little bit more of an expensive item. I don’t, I don’t wanna put this on there and it leave a mark or Uhhuh, but it works great. Does on my Lululemon?
[00:21:44] Kristy: Yes
[00:21:44] Chelsea: it does. Yes. This person said my son’s baseball pants had really bad grass and mud stains.
[00:21:49] Chelsea: I used your stain remover and it completely got the stains out. I’ve heard a lot of stories about baseball pants.
[00:21:54] Kristy: Yeah.
[00:21:54] Chelsea: So the MLBs probably gonna be picking you up after this. Make sure you. This one is, I [00:22:00] had a nasty ring on the inside of my favorite hat, which I’ve seen boys hats. They’re disgusting.
[00:22:05] Suzanne: Yes.
[00:22:06] Chelsea: Mm-hmm. So I don’t know if they threw their hat in the washing machine or just ran it
[00:22:10] Suzanne: underwater. You just rinsed it out. Yeah. I did a hat for my daughter the other day and I just scrubbed the hat.
[00:22:15] Chelsea: Mm-hmm. Sed it. Washed it. Washed it in washing
[00:22:16] Suzanne: machine. I, no, I just scrubbed it.
[00:22:18] Chelsea: Okay. Scrubbed it.
[00:22:18] Suzanne: I just scrubbed it with this and then rinse it off.
[00:22:20] Suzanne: And, what’s that?
[00:22:21] Chelsea: And by the way. You do have to add water because the first 10 times I used it,
[00:22:26] Suzanne: no, stop it.
[00:22:27] Chelsea: It was just deodorant.
[00:22:28] Suzanne: You
[00:22:29] Chelsea: just de
[00:22:29] Kristy: sticking
[00:22:30] Chelsea: it.
[00:22:31] Kristy: You’re,
[00:22:31] Chelsea: what is happening? Well, it does say, it says add water, but I’m not big on directions.
[00:22:35] Kristy: You’re
[00:22:35] Suzanne: not
[00:22:35] Kristy: big on directions.
[00:22:36] Chelsea: No, I just felt it. Did it
[00:22:37] Kristy: work without water?
[00:22:38] Chelsea: Yes. Yes, but I’m not saying use it without water.
[00:22:41] Kristy: Right. I
[00:22:42] Chelsea: how, this is kind of weird. It’s like rubbing deodorant on your clothes. You do get more of a suds effect. Definitely. Definitely
[00:22:48] Kristy: works better. I
[00:22:49] Chelsea: wasn’t a SUD sister. I was just. Little stick, sister stick. This is not my review, but it says self tanner stain.
[00:22:58] Suzanne: Okay.
[00:22:58] Chelsea: So it works. [00:23:00] If I love that, I wouldn’t know anything about that. You don’t, you don’t
[00:23:02] Suzanne: spray Dan,
[00:23:03] Chelsea: but nope. I’ve heard the people that you’ve heard, the people
[00:23:05] Suzanne: that spray
[00:23:06] Chelsea: Dan ghost skin need it. Um, this person dashed, dabbed it dashed and ran door dashed. They, they rubbed it. On a rug.
[00:23:15] Kristy: Yes, I know we have one.
[00:23:17] Kristy: One girl, a friend of ours actually, she was like, I just got a brand new house, brand new rug, or a brand new carpet. And she was like, my daughter got into lipstick, like stain lipstick, like dear, and she was like, I tried everything. I thought it was ruined. I was in tears and she used our product and it got it out.
[00:23:36] Chelsea: That’s amazing.
[00:23:36] Kristy: Yeah, I know. I haven’t tried it on a carpet before, but I was glad someone else did. And that it was successful.
[00:23:42] Chelsea: Yes.
[00:23:43] Kristy: So,
[00:23:43] Chelsea: and we have a lot of red lipstick at my house. Yes. With my. The little 5-year-old, she’s rocking the red, red lips brilliant to
[00:23:49] Kristy: red
[00:23:49] Suzanne: lips.
[00:23:50] Chelsea: And our last person, I’m not gonna say this person’s name, but they were bleeding from the head because they got blood out of their pillowcase.
[00:23:57] Chelsea: So I don’t know what happened to them. [00:24:00]
[00:24:00] Suzanne: I would assume bloody nose, but you can go bleeding out
[00:24:02] Chelsea: the head. That is, they were bleeding from the head. So you
can
[00:24:04] Chelsea: put your product, your product will relieve. Bleeding from the head. Mm-hmm. That’s like emergency level.
[00:24:12] Suzanne: It’s not, it’s not stitches. This isn’t medical advice.
[00:24:14] Suzanne: Do we need to like add a little?
[00:24:16] Chelsea: Yeah.
[00:24:17] Suzanne: Please ca call 9 1 1. If you’re bleeding from the head, don’t grab your stay stick.
[00:24:20] Chelsea: Do
[00:24:20] Suzanne: not.
[00:24:20] Chelsea: Are you bleeding from the head? Thanks, mom. Co. Is here to get your back and make sure that you are. There no stains left behind. No stain. Bloody nose. I didn’t think bloody nose at all.
[00:24:32] Suzanne: You were like, they’re bleeding from the head on their foot.
[00:24:34] Chelsea: Well, she’s like, I got blood outta my pillowcase. And I’m thinking, and you’re
[00:24:37] Kristy: like, why?
[00:24:39] Chelsea: Who’s bleeding from the head and worried about I gotta get my
[00:24:43] Kristy: laundry? Apparently you
[00:24:44] Chelsea: don’t get nose.
[00:24:45] Kristy: My, it was. Uh, my head went towards like a lost tooth that was bleeding.
[00:24:49] Suzanne: Oh,
[00:24:50] Kristy: it’s
[00:24:50] Chelsea: funny. Brain
[00:24:51] Suzanne: somewhere
[00:24:52] Kristy: bleeding from
[00:24:53] Suzanne: the head.
[00:24:53] Kristy: I mean, they’re all bleeding from the mouth and
[00:24:54] Suzanne: bleeding from the nose.
[00:24:56] Chelsea: It could be any kind of trauma really. But thanks, mom. [00:25:00] Co handled it. Oh, thanks mom. Co. We’re gonna do a giveaway.
[00:25:03] Suzanne: Okay? Yeah.
[00:25:03] Chelsea: Great. Love it. So your Instagram. Thanks. Underscore mom.
[00:25:08] Chelsea: Underscore co CO. That’s it.
[00:25:10] Suzanne: Mm-hmm.
[00:25:11] Chelsea: And then ours, Tulsa is home. So we’re gonna do a, a post kind of featuring you guys, and if you like it and share it, we’re gonna choose a giveaway and someone is gonna go home. Well, someone is going to have a box delivered to them. Yes. The US. Postman outta the USPS. Can you believe it?
[00:25:31] Suzanne: Hopefully they don’t bleed from their head and need it for that.
[00:25:33] Chelsea: They’re like, Hey, God. I was bleeding from the head and then up, and then I won the sweep sweepstakes. Um, yeah. So I’m so glad that you guys were here and took time out of your very busy schedules, your entrepreneurial schedules. Thank you for, for coming in, for having this, sitting with us and telling us all about this baby that you.
[00:25:52] Chelsea: Heads together.
[00:25:54] Suzanne: I know. I know
[00:25:54] Chelsea: this friendship baby
[00:25:56] Suzanne: first in our lives, all kids were had separately.
[00:25:58] Chelsea: Okay. All seven kids.
[00:25:59] Suzanne: All [00:26:00] seven kids were birthed. Separately.
[00:26:01] Chelsea: Separately. Got it. Different homes.
[00:26:04] Kristy: Two different, and we really struggle with that. You know, like in a picture together we’re like,
[00:26:07] Chelsea: it’s a lot of kids.
[00:26:09] Kristy: Yeah. Friends,
[00:26:09] Chelsea: how
[00:26:09] Kristy: do we clarify? Yes.
[00:26:10] Chelsea: It’s a lot of kids.
[00:26:11] Kristy: They are separate families. Yes.
[00:26:14] Chelsea: I’m so glad that you’re here and I’m so glad that I got to hear more about your story.
[00:26:18] Kristy: Thank you
[00:26:18] Chelsea: for having us. Thank you. Yeah,
[00:26:19] Kristy: thank you so much.
