How we created a successful clothing brand from Thailand and Vietnam// expat in Thailand
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This is the story of how my Mom and I created our US women's clothing brand- Grace and Joy.
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Hi my name is Lilly and I am an American expat living on Koh Samui, Thailand for the last 8 years. My Thai husband is named Wat and we have 2 half Thai, half American boys named Luke and Leon.
Wat and I have owned several businesses together on Maenam walking street. If you come to Koh Samui give us a visit at our restaurant Lilikoi Bistro.
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There will definitely be more followers if you also do Thai subtitles
You are amazing!! You inspired me. Great business tips.
wow you and your mom are really brave and entrepreneurial. Thanks for sharing your journey
Your mum is a splitting image of my aunt! Has your mum ever done a dna test? I wouldn't be surprised if they were related!
I was born in Thailand. Been in the US since 1979. I’ve learned so much from your RUclips videos. Your videos are awesome! Keep up the great work. 🙏💓
Mom (Susan) here. Love the story of how we started. And it’s all true. Love you Lilly and great job editing our talks.
Thanks Mom!
Hi Susan ...... just loved the videos Lily has done with you.
The places you stayed.
Great meals 🤤🤤🤤
And your story on business venture.
Look forward to seeing you again on Lily’s vids.
Safe travels back to 🇺🇸 USA
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❤️
Susan, your restaurant looks SUPER LOVELY IN VINTAGE STYLE. 💖💗❤️
i got into your videos at random and am quite amazed how you and your daughter went head first into pretty unknown territories in business and geographically? pretty impressive of rather brave personalities!
Susan is amazing to have such a brave spirit to start a business at the age of 55 (She even looks younger than 55 today honestly). Very inspiring story. Thank you for sharing.
So glad you told your story. Your Mom is amazing.
Thank you so much June!
Thank you very much forsupporting Thailand. We love you and your lovely family.
Thank you Thatchai! :-)
“ No debt”. Such clever ladies.👍👍👍 And thank you for supporting our goods. 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭
Love your mom. She is retirement age and working 80 hours weeks on her own business. Hard working and great personality the both of you. And you are both gorgeous.
I have been reading some of your stories tonight I am truly taken by your enthusiasm
all the Best. 🦘🦘🦘
Hello Klara how are you doing?
You two are prime examples of stepping way out of your comfort zone and taking a chance. Like any endeavor...there are always hurdles and challenges along way. But you two have taken them head on with Grace & Joy.
On a personal note I am envious of the mother and daughter relationship you two have. I have two sons but far apart, so it must be natural talent. I admire the fearless life you live. More power to you.
I am sure your husband is a nice and quiet person..plus i see you look much more beautiful and calm in the photos since you have gotten married😊
I watch you a lot but I enjoyed this video the most out of any of your videos. I love the relationship you have with your mom. ❤️❤️❤️
Hello Dana how are you doing?
Really inspiring story, Lily and Mom susan💛
Thank you Francisco!
I love your mom. She is very brave, creative and so cool.
That was such a beautiful story of you and your mum being in business together and separately it was so nice to hear the back story of how you ended up in vietnam and then thailand and the way you met wat keep up your beautiful stories 💖💖😎😎⭐⭐
Thank you so much!
Good luck with the business.I love your mum.She is very posh and funny.🙏🙏
Hello Thai how are you doing?
I'm so impressed Lilly & your Mom's strong spirit.. to work so hard.. from small store to where Grace & Joy is born👏👏👏👏.
WOW!!!!
Congratulations!
Your hard work paid off.
Very informative and reassuring. When covid-19 goes away I will start a furniture business from Vietnam into Australia. I've studied as much as a human can and I'm currently learning vietnamese language. So go away covid-19. Good vid.
Thank you Derek. Best of luck!
Lily and Susan. I love this story! When I lived in Japan, I visited Thailand and loved the country. I just remember how I loved the food. It is the freshest food I have ever tasted! I also remember the clothing stalls where people would just buy clothes. I saw these french businessmen who bought the entire stall full of products and shipped it back to France to sell back there. Thailand is a great place to live. It is affordable and a VERY HAPPY place to live. I love watching your videos and I love the journey that Lily has taken. You never know what will happen, but I believe that God has the best for you in life. I pray for continued blessings to reign in your lives and look forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers!
WOW Lilly, Amazing life story, Now I’m addictive to your channel. Proud of you Mother and daughter 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽
Thank you for sharing Lilly. I actually had this idea for my mom awhile ago as we are from Thailand and Myanmar. We are definitely gonna consider doing this for my family in California.
Have followed your journey over the years. Just needed to hear Gigi tell her story again praying for her now and hoping she is comfortable back in her home surrounded by love
❤🙏🦘
This is so encouraging! I've especially enjoyed these times with you and your mom! I have also really enjoyed your testimony!
Thank you Marina! God bless you sister
Your so lucky to have a very supportive mom. I hope you will succeed.
I love these stories where individuals let go of doubt + fear and just follow inspiration + excitement. It really leads to joy + abundance when we take risks to follow our interests + inspiration. Thanks for sharing your story 💜
I so miss my momma we were that close truly cherish your time with her!, Everyday I miss her we were 30 yrs apart almost exactly when she went I'll never miss anyone that much ever....
Love your story, glad you made this land a home.
Thank you!
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You are courageous, open minded and caring person
Hello Remy how are you doing?
What a touching story doing business between mum and daughters.
In your young pictures with brown hair you look like Kate Middleton 😍 you and your mum are very inspiring ♥️
your mom is a brave lady
You're right, don't be afraid to fail/fall. Learning from your mistakes is what makes you successful. Sometimes you have to find out what doesn't work in order to find what does work.
Mom is very resourceful, you are very good at doing business, very determines.
Family is where you can succeed in life, the support network! Great mindset, risk taking. Some people in the world expect success to fall into their lap….life doesn’t work that way. Another great example…
Hello from South Africa. Your zest for successful business skills is beyond comprehension. Many thanks for your motivation to persevere and even prosper through difficult times. May God continue to bless you abundantly. Congrats, Lilly, on yet another excellent video!
Thank you for sharing. I love how supportive your family is and taking the leap of faith together. Love love love your channel!
I'm a single Malaysian of Indian origin. I'm fascinated to see how an Asian and a Westerner can blend so well together.
I absolutely loved this video. I'm a 51 year old sahm turned real estate investor. It can be overwhelming at times but if you have the drive you just keep going and learning along the way! You two are such an inspiration for women entrepreneurs ! We hosted a Thai high school student for a year. She lives in Bangkok where she now runs several businesses. I'd love to visit some day! 😊
Excellent story. Reminded me years ago when I was 19-20 years, my first trip to Vietnam as a backpacker I brought back to Australia an entire sack like Santa full of hats, baseball caps, designer hats, shade caps etc. Probably over 500-600 hats worth as carry luggage.
I found a wholesale street somewhere in Saigon selling them for 50c-$1 each. Then easily resold them for $10-15 each at the markets here. Highly profitable back then.
Easily paid for my entire trip, Uni plus more.
Kept going back and forth multiple times during Uni holidays for many years. Each time a bigger sack but enough to be kept under carry weight limit 30kg.
Could of expanded the business then but stop many years now to pursue another imports business. Was very competitive in the later years as other people caught on. :)
Ur mom is so beautiful, I’m enjoying your videos. Ur videos are so focus on family that’s what make it very unique and special
How inspiring. Glad that you were not serlfish by sharing your experiences so others can make it too.
Great video Lily! Your Mom is really enterprising in business and adventurous trying new foods and visiting new places. My Motto is : "CHALLENGE YOURSELF" &." CHANGE A CHORE INTO A CHALLENGE". That helped me succeed in business and also I was able to Mentor and start others in business. I used to also be in the Import business and imported products from Thailand, China, Sri Lanka and India & Pakistan, I also owned and operated my own Indo Chinese Restaurant, since I love to cook. Just keep doing what you both enjoying doing and even if your don't make a lot of money, you will certainly gain a lot of knowledge & experience. Continued success to you and your Mom. Good luck!
Oh wow! Hope to meet you one day Keith. Thank you for watching :-)
@@lillyslife : I wish I would have noticed and watched your You tube videos in late 2018 or early 2019. As you know we visited Haty Yai, Songhkla, Bangkok and Pataya after visiting & touring Singapore and Malaysia.. We could have met you & Wat treated you both to dinner and we could have gotten to know each other better & learned from each other. Next time we visit Thailand, we will sure let you know as my wife loved Thailand, even though she is not a foodie like me. I used to Import Handicrafts, Clothing, Scarves, Jewelry etc and then when it got too competitive, I switched to sporting Goods and imported Boxing Equipment from China, India and Thailand as it was more lucrative in the mid 80's and off course that also got competitive and the profit margin fell, so I owned and operated an Indo Chinese Restaurant and it was also very profitable. So, dabbled with a few businesses and made some good money in the early years.
When we go to Canada gonna stop by!!, so proud of the family business , but women who work together and are close, God bless you all truly
Found your channel 2 days ago and I couldn’t stop watching your videos! I will definitely visit your restaurant IF we are free to travel again. Missing Thailand so much 😭xxx
Hello Chanee how are you doing?
I was curious about your shop so it was nice to hear the background story. Well done to you two! Not only is it a good business idea but it allows opportunities for you and mom to visit and see one another in Thailand.
Your entire famiy is completely loving and accepting warm people! Susan is a wonderful mom and grandmother!
Thank you for sharing your experience..
Love you both🥰
Hello Cathy how are you doing?
I am the one Thai who love your idea. You inspire me to keep living inThailand and fighting with struggling of life. I got many good ideas from watching your videos. I would say thank you very much. By the way one more sub :))
what an open and beautiful family I have ever seen.
Thank you so much Lily and Susan for sharing your experience and knowledge with so much enthusiasm and encouragement, congrats 😊on your success .
Thank you so much!
Vietnamese here. Dont know why I stumbled on your video but I’m very glad I did. Your story is very interesting and sweet, and I love how you were genuinely honest and proud of your journey. Congratulations to your entirely family on your achievements and success, and hope that the best is yet to come to you lovely people. Cheers.
You to are amazing, and hard working from yang bouth, and creativ family 🙏🍀🤗❤️ Hard work, allways pays off, in the end. Love that you followed your dreams, not every one cean handel the work loud, and the stress, whit a bissnes, it's a lot off work, that go in to it, but it's fun to ❤️🤗🙏🍀👍
The best Mother & Daughter combination ever.
I just looove how transparent you are about your life Lilly♥️
I literally run into your Channel yesterday and I watch about 3 episode,listening to your Mom and you talk with such a soothing voice....Wonderful Family you have younglady.... Enjoy them... Always put God first...Walk Good and stay safe...God is Good..
Job well done! I was an expat living in Saigon for 9 years before coming back before the COVID pandemic. I went to almost all the spots that your showed in BKK. I miss the expat life in SE Asia. Rare to see a female expat living outside of BKK. I am sure you have 10000s of experiences that you would love to share in the US, but most would not understand! Keep strong and keep healthy.
Thanks Mike. Once you get use to expat life in SE Asia it is difficult to live anywhere else. I love Saigon and hope to go back one day. Thank you again for watching:-)
You guys are so wonderful, very positive and that makes lives successful
Age just a number, never too late to start any business. Wish you and Your mother A successful Business venture. What a lovely mommy & daughter partner... 👍👍👍🤩
Thank you Lily and Susan to make this video.
Yes Yes open your restaurant again in the future. I’m so miss eating Cajun food. Gumbo soup, shrimp etouffee, especially Cajun boiled crawfish. Oh and fresh shuck raw oysters.
Hello PJ Retired PD. How are you doing?
Greetings Lilly and mom Susan thank you for your honesty explaining your business background and strategy, you have a beautiful family with great support and you guys are an inspiration to others,we will get over the pandemic and your restaurant will flourish again, take care and thank you ☺️
Thank you. Never give up.
I’m Cambodian, living in Canada. Your mom is lovely n nice, just like you!!
What a very inspiring story. Thank you for sharing ❤️
You are so welcome!
Amazing, I am so inspired because I am planning to have small business through online and I started it already buy and sell through my FB but I stop it now because I want to do it when I go back in the Philippines. Thanks for sharing
What!!!!!! your mom look just around 55 today!!!!!
Thank you I will tell her you say so :-)
It is very inspiring video. Thank you for sharing invaluable experiences. I am from South East Asia too, but I have no clue to do business in the US. Thank again for sharing.
Hello sokhom how are you doing?
Lilly you're very blessed. In one year you acquired almost 83 thousand subscribers. It takes Vloggers years to accomplish this many times. That's a believer's blessing.
Thank you for doing this leave my home and go to Thailand great people that live there I can see the world through your eyes as I sit here and try to keep our little safe world for my grandchildren
Inspiration! Thanks, I was involved in the Fashion Industry in South Africa (Designing and retail). Covid killed the business... Currently I live in Chaingmai, Thailand and have no intention to leave yet. For the moment I teach and am trying to get back into the industry; I put ranges of styles together and "build" onto it, (indirect wardrope planning). I would like to get intouch with Grace & Joy, I like your philosophy of building relationship in bussiness, it "rings" with my spirit!
Sweet & Amazing mom... “follow your heart.”
What a successful story. Good luck Susan and Lilly. I was so happy to see you both travelling together. The food you have eaten on your travels is amazing. I love Indian, Chinese and Thai. Yummy!
Thank you so much for sharing. My husband can totally relate as a business owner how it's physically and emotionally demanding. However it will work out itself when you love what you do. More success to you blogs Lilly.
Hello Ame how are you doing?
I love this video. Lilly, one of your best. Your lovely mum is most inspiring for entrepreneurs.
Thank you so much!
Lily, I just watch this video after 7 mths . So inspiring. 👍 Envy u for yr courage and envy yr mom for being very supportive. 🙏 Thk u for sharing.
Loved this 🙂 especially the advice! Xx
Hello Maria how are you doing?
Thank you for sharing your way and your business. It may inspire other people
I love this family,never get tired of watching them!!!
Your mom is adorable !!
Love how genuine you two are! Your mom has a very positive mindset and very inspirational :) Have a safe trip, home!
Amen
DEAREST Lilly, Please do not succumb to Buddhism etc. Read the impressive missionary biography of GOD in 1 Peter 1:18-20. GOD paid the supreme cost to redeem us from the emptiness of our FALSE RELIGIONS & IDEOLOGIES. What was the redeeming price? PETER no doubt remembers vividly the apalling sight of the bleeding, broken body of JESUS on the cross when saying we were ransomed "with the precious blood of CHRIST, a lamb without blemish or defect" (v.19) Robert FAY (Registered PHARMACIST) formerly from Sukhothai & now in Sydney, AUSTRALIA.
Thanks for sharing. I'm an entrepreneur too. My business is on medical equipment supplier and is going on our 6 years. I love your mom's enthusiasm and encouragement.
The business strategy of you two is AWESOME
Hello Snowflake how are you doing?
You're so talented and amazing สู้ๆค่ะ♥ 🇹🇭🇹🇭
An amazing video! Wonderful people with open mind! I wish great success to the mom and daughter!
Very nice video. Thanks for sharing your story.
Thanks, you too Karen!
like your moms attitude about life and hardwork. God bless yr family
Both of you ladies are so beautiful and elegant. You are such an inspiration to all of us.
Two brilliant entrepreneurs! It must feel so good to work together.
Hello Jennifer how are you doing?
I m so admired how you got successfully with your positive attitudes. I need love team ( like your mum and sisters on board but i don't have it) i wish to do thing like you did.
Hi,
Hello Lada how are you doing?
you look great mom :) and kudos to you, mom for going after something new and succeeding at it!!
Wow...I've eaten at Croquette a few times during previous visits to NO! I can't believe I stumbled across your RUclips Channel. What an awesome journey you lead. May you have continued success.
This is an amazing adventure you all were on. I really love hearing the story and seeing the beautiful photographs of the fabrics along with your story. I like your advice about re-branding. I’m really interested in you guys because like you I have a very strong French connection Having been born in France but living in the states for a long time. My business was called the French tart and I needed to change it to a Lauredon Place the name of my street. I hope you continue to give advice and inspire. I need to learn more about the business side of things So thank you for posting This kind of content! May you do well during the holidays!
Great job i like your story with your motivation and specicialy your mom.
Thank you so much!
Hi Lilly, New friend here. I am not sure why your channel came to my feed. But all day today I watched several of your videos. I am originally from The Philippines but living now in the US since 2014. What's interesting is my husband and I has been talking almost the same idea of what you and your Mom is doing.
Thank you to your Mom for mentioning about the shipping...😊
You are a very brave girl. With your mum more brave with more inspiration to business. Yeah you all will be sucessful going forward in the future. Big n far vision made sucessful. Bright ideas !!!
Thank you so much 🤗
Entrepreneur is in Lilly's DNA!!
love you and your mom's business ventures.
Hello Joy’s how are you doing?
WOw! Your love fate is so far away from America.
Your mum is an awesome business woman and so are you.
Your channel is the most inspiring channel so far I appreciate you how you struggle your life for happiness n ur blessed to hv such a sweet mom n humble husband GBU
😍😲WOW what a BEAUTIFUL and talented family 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🥰sending lots of love and prayers for success and prosperity🤗😉😊