The Shopify LA event spotlight - Kirsty Godso

I'm attending the Shopify LA event spotlight series' first meeting (this year); this one hosted by Kirsty Godso. Shopify LA event spotlight. Come meet and network with successful Shopify Masters and hear their stories on how to launch successful brands. EVENT AUGUST 20, 2019, 6:30 youPM Merchant Mentor Session: Kirsty Godso In this edition of our Merchant Mentor Session series, Nike Master Trainer, Kirsty Godso, will be here to chat about the commerce of cardio and what it means to be in the 'business of bodies". The event space itself is gorgeous - a modern E-commerce brick and mortar retail and services shop aimed at helping aspiring and established Internet entrepreneurs establish a Shopify presence; set amongst the significant new development for entrepreneurial enterprises in Row DTLA, located where the old American Apparel factory was located during it's heyday. Kirsty does Nike professional fitness training, as well as a whey-based protein product called Made Of. One of her tips for fitness buffs using manufactured proteins is that binders are important - she uses and recommends Xanthan Gum. It's a somewhat unconventional contemporary move in that she doesn't "eco-wash" her products, as her assistant puts it, in using a plant- and gluten-free base for her protein product. The event is an insightful look in to the life of a currently successful CEO of an E-commerce business. She's based in New York, as a native New Zealander. Her morning routine is fast; she doesn't snooze the alarm. Rather, she hits the shower, first thing. Once she's out and about for her day at Nike corporate, she has a mid-morning coffee, does her cross-branding corporate consulting dailies, and she teaches classes. Kirsty uses Instagram marketing for her branding and internet presence. Some of her tips are to take advantage of the moment where somebody needs something, don't take things for granted, check everything, and not to take things personally. As a New Yorker, her advice for this crowd is to not complain, and also: don't take the J-train. (As a Los Angeles native, I'm gonna have to look that bit of localized folklore up. After the event, I heard someone say "he's such a bum." I wouldn't have doubted it, as I was troubled, before I showed up, as to whether or not I smelled bad or not. Thankfully, I remembered that I have some coconut-scented body wash, which I lightly doused over myself, and I stopped by Macy's at The Bloc to put on some Spice Bomb cologne.