“Empowering Others To Make The Change” with Claire Coder

I had the pleasure of interviewing Claire Coder, founder and CEO of Aunt Flow. Aunt Flow designed a solution to support businesses and schools offer freely accessible menstrual products in the bathrooms. The Columbus-based company supports customers ranging from Google North America to Princeton University. Claire founded the company at 18-years-old and since has been featured in Forbes, TeenVogue, and named Entrepreneur’s 100 Powerful Women. She designed a bag for Vera Bradley that sold out in 24 hours and is a superfan of Jeni’s Ice Cream and Macklemore.

Jean: Thank you so much for joining us! We did a feature on your company a year ago, can you share what’s new with your brand?

The thing I am most excited about: Aunt Flow designed and developed our free-vend menstrual product dispenser. Now in hundreds of companies, our ESTROGEN dispenser allows commercial bathrooms to sustainably offer our 100% organic cotton tampons and pads for free in the bathrooms.

Jean: What have you learned over the past year as an entrepreneur?

WHEW! How to delegate — As an only child and solo-founder, I reached a breaking point where I realized I couldn’t keep doing things all by myself. Delegation and leading is a very tricky skill for me. I constantly need to remind myself “Pass the ball…