{"id":341,"date":"2014-03-24T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:00:30","slug":"trina-spear-building-a-medical-movement-with-scrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/trina-spear-building-a-medical-movement-with-scrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"BWR 019: Trina Spear: Building a Medical Movement With Scrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1748\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-341-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\">http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/?powerpress_pinw=341-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>What does it really take to build a movement? To bring innovation to a century of business stagnation?<\/p>\n<h1>Listen to our Interview with Trina Spear, Co-Owner of Figs to find out!<\/h1>\n<p>Trina Spear and her Co-Founder Heather Hasson want to change the world. \u00a0And they&#8217;re going to do it by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">selling<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">giving<\/span> high quality, fashion scrubs to healthcare professionals all around the world!! \u00a0The unique business is not just about their super suave (and highly functional and comfortable) scrubs. \u00a0It&#8217;s about the attitude and vision of its leaders! Listen to Trina&#8217;s interview and I guarantee you&#8217;ll leave with your own business on fire (in a good way). \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Trina&#8217;s Kick-A$$ Quotes:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you really want to start something and you\u2019re passionate about it, just go do it!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sales is just about connecting with the people that believe in what you believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The more we build our business, the bigger we become, the bigger impact we can have around the world!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Katie&#8217;s Favorite Take-a-Ways<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Grassroots Market Research Created Figs Success!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trina and her partner Heather spent so much time sitting and talking with medical professionals, asking them questions, seeing if they wanted something like what they were offering. \u00a0They sold their scrubs out of their cars&#8230;anything they could do to prove that people would actually\u00a0<em>pay\u00a0<\/em>for their product!<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Giving Back &amp; Playing For a Larger Purpose<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Part of the Figs mission is to majorly impact the cleanliness of hospitals. Because of this, for every ONE pair of Figs scrubs someone orders, they DONATE one pair to someone who can&#8217;t afford clean scrubs, often someone who has been performing surgeries and procedures in their jeans and dirty shirt. \u00a0Figs organizes medical trips to places all around the world to go help!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000SEGI8Q\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000SEGI8Q&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=buswomroc-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Trina&#8217;s Favorite Business Books<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seth Godin<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Gladwell<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Find out more about Trina &amp; Figs!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.WearFigs.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-343 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Figs.jpg\" alt=\"Figs\" width=\"230\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1750\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-341-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\">http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/?powerpress_pinw=341-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWhat does it really take to build a movement? To bring innovation to a century of business stagnation? Listen to our Interview with Trina Spear, Co-Owner of Figs to find out! Trina Spear and her Co-Founder Heather Hasson want to change the world. \u00a0And they&#8217;re going to do it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127,2],"tags":[157,155,153,158,79,130,156,154,152,151,2000],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-podcasts","tag-capital","tag-doctor","tag-figs","tag-funding","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-nurse","tag-scrubs","tag-spear","tag-trina","tag-trina-spear-building-a-medical-movement-with-scrubs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BWR 019: Trina Spear: Building a Medical Movement With Scrubs - Biz Women Rock!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/trina-spear-building-a-medical-movement-with-scrubs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BWR 019: Trina Spear: Building a Medical Movement With Scrubs - Biz Women Rock!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/traffic.libsyn.com\/businesswomenrock\/Trina_Spear_-_Figs.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWhat does it really take to build a movement? 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