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The Sourcing Gals

From idea to inventory 📦 Your trusted guides for sourcing, manufacturing, and scaling your product overseas.

Podcast · By Erin Souder and Jackie Hutson · American English · Official site

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12
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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    Episode 79: Overwhelmed? Here Are the Tools That'll Actually Save You (opens the original)

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    Recorded live from a hotel room in LA — on a tripod improvised from a roly suitcase, an upside-down trash can, and a loafer with a protein bar stuffed inside — Jackie and Erin break down every AI tool currently running their business and how differently they each use them. They cover Asana, Claude, Gemini, and more, plus how they each personally manage founder overwhelm, before revealing the real reason they're in LA: Accio (the Alibaba-owned AI sourcing tool they talk about constantly) flew the

  2. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Episode 78: You Got the Retail PO — Now the Real Work Begins (opens the original)

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    You landed the retail PO — congrats, now the real work starts. Erin and Jackie break down what's buried in the fine print (payment terms, marketing allowances, compliance, delivery windows, chargebacks, markdown dollars, returns) and why a good sales rep can pay for itself. If you're about to fulfill your first retail PO, this is the heads-up nobody gives you before you sign.

  3. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Episode 77: What Do We Actually Do? Pulling Back the Curtain on The Sourcing Gals (opens the original)

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    After years of talking about clients "in air quotes" without ever really explaining what they do day to day, Jackie and Erin finally pull back the curtain. They walk through every service The Sourcing Gals actually offers — from Launch (for founders with an idea who haven't gone to market yet) to Gold Glove (full-service product development through PO and delivery) to their B2B and fractional sales work with established brands — and share real client stories, including one who chose to stay smal

  4. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    Episode 76: "The Founder Trap: Designing for You, Not Your Customer" (opens the original)

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    Most product ideas start as a personal problem the founder needed solved — which is exactly what makes "design for your customer, not yourself" so hard to actually do. Erin and Jackie dig into the founder trap of building for your own taste instead of the market you're trying to serve, using real examples from their own brands, their Abercrombie days, and founders inside their Founders Circle. They cover how to separate brand vision from personal preference, how to filter real customer feedback

  5. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Episode 75: You're Sold Out. So Why Are You Broke? (opens the original)

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    Your product is selling. The orders are coming in. So why does your bank account not show it? Erin and Jackie break down the retail math founders skip past in year one — the real difference between revenue and margin, everything that actually belongs in your true cost of goods, and why "sold out" and "profitable" are two completely different things. They also get into how much of your margin should go to marketing, why the reorder trap catches so many product founders off guard, and the one book

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