19 Questions With Taylor Lamb
by The Candidly Team
This article is part of our series called "People We Like," in which we highlight interesting women, across all walks of life.
Leaders, great cooks, doctors, parents, writers; people who inspire us.
Today, we’re highlighting Taylor Lamb, co-founder and CMO of Juna, one of our favorite brands for high-end CBD products that actually make sense for our lives.
The Candidly Questionnaire
1. What’s your most compelling quality?
It might just be all the Juna CBD I dose on the daily, or maybe that I take after my father, but most people that know me say that I’m pretty easy-going.
I’m also super decisive, which helps with being an entrepreneur. A newer quality that I have done A TON of work to build is my EQ skills to help make me a better leader, manager, mother, and wife.
2. What’s your worst quality, according to your friends?
According to my friends, I peer pressure them into having a little “too” much fun. According to my husband, I always have way too much on my plate and never finish work at a reasonable time.
3. What’s an overrated value you don’t buy into?
Big weddings. I don’t get why we put so much pressure and importance around one day at the beginning of your union. We should have the big wedding after 10 or 20 years together— that would be worth celebrating.
4. How do you feel about cilantro?
Yes, please! I add it to all my favorite Mexican and Indian dishes.
5. Are essential oils anything?
Depends on the essential oil. If you asked me 10 years ago, I probably would have said “who knows,” but since meeting my business partner and co-founder, Jewel Zimmer, I am a firm believer that plants have the power to heal. She has taught me so much about the power of certain healing essential oils and how quality sourcing is paramount.
Not all CBD is created equal, and neither are essential oils. It’s important to find organic ones that you can really trust.
6. What's the most effective beauty trick you know?
Pre-Covid: this might be controversial, but bathroom toilet seat covers (clean ones, of course!) make for excellent oil blotting sheets.
During covid: Since I don’t go anywhere with public restrooms, my Covid edition ride-or-die is definitely dry shampoo. I’ve tried almost every single brand under the sun trying to find the best, most effective, organic dry-shampoo. The winner I always go back to is Batiste. It is neither organic nor fancy, but it sure as hell makes a greasy mop look presentable.
7. How do you get your self-esteem?
Age helps, and so does having a good sense of humor and being able to make fun of myself.
8. What meal can you make the hell out of?
I LOVE cooking and experimenting with new recipes. Ina Garten recipes literally never disappoint.
Last night I made some French Onion soup with leftover prime rib and gruyere croutons that was in my top 10.
9. What’s your favorite item of clothing you own?
I live in my Nike Daybreak sneakers and own more pairs than my husband can count (pro tip: I leave them all around our house so he never sees how many I actually own).
I wear them with workout clothes and a leather jacket, summer dresses, with overalls, on walks, or to work… yes, everywhere. They are comfy, super versatile, and allow me to chase after my daughter at all times.
10. How do you handle conflict?
I wish I was better at facing conflict head-on, or had some great advice I could share, but to be completely honest, I tend to avoid most conflicts and get over it the next day. For things that I can’t “just get over,” I find it’s best to just have the conversation right away so it doesn’t keep me up at night. In the big scheme of things, conflict can usually bring great outcomes.
11. What idea has really challenged you in the last year?
Motherhood.
12. What Insta account speaks to you deeply?
13. What quote or phrase has stayed with you?
“If you want to make a billion dollars, you need to solve a billion people’s problems.”
14. What’s your favorite movie from the last ten years?
Bridesmaids is a classic. I also watched A Star is Born on a flight home from New York and it made me cry. I cry maybe 2-3 times a year so have to give credit where credit’s due.
15. What forms of therapy have changed your relationship to yourself?
Laughing.
16. What’s the most delicious bite of food you’ve ever had?
I can’t pinpoint the most delicious food I’ve ever eaten, but here some favorites: Sugarfish’s blue crab hand roll, the miso black cod from Nobu, and any cheesy french onion soup.
17. Is social media ruining our brains?
100%
18. Describe your actual bedtime routine.
Shower, sweats, brush my teeth, Juna’s Nightcap oil, Ritual prenatal, check the baby monitor, cuddle with my husband, and Zzzzzzzz.
19. What’s your relationship with bangs?
I had them my entire childhood and now I have some postpartum wing/bangs that just started appearing. Weird things happen after birth.
What is your single favorite:
Wellness product that *actually* works: Ease CBG and Ritual vitamins.
Lip balm: Honest’s tinted lip balm.
Jeans brand: Mother.
Mascara: Ilia.
Sweats: Lunya, Mate, & Cleobella.
Effective “lady” product: This $25 Amazon vibrator.
Last-minute gift: Nightcap. Who doesn’t need better sleep?
Bra: Cuup.
Shampoo: Playa.
Comfortable shoes: Nike Daybreak Shoes, as previously mentioned. I have them in 4 colors!
Splurge skincare: Sunday Riley’s LUNA Sleeping Night Oil, UFO oil, and Good Genes. I love it all.
Drugstore skincare: Nubian Heritage Patchouli & Buriti Aluminum Free Deodorant.
Everyday bag: Cleobella’s Taylor Mama Bag. I use this everyday. It fits my laptop and all my baby’s diapers.
Guilty-pleasure TV show: Working Moms is the best series I have ever seen.
Drink: Sauvignon Blanc.
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