w/ Shirah Benarde

Season 5 starting off strong with Shirah Benarde, the young CEO and co-founder of NightCap, a drink-spiking-prevention products company that has been featured on Shark Tank and so many other places. Shirah shares her journey, including dropping out of college, co-founding NightCap with her brother, striking one of the fastest deals in Shark Tank history with shark Lori Greiner and so much more. Happy Listening!!

Learn more about NightCap here: Website | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | Shirah’s Instagram

Maddy’s Note: “A lot of cool things happened surrounding this episode. First, my coworker Allie told me that she actually owns a NightCap when I was telling her I got Shirah to be on my podcast and I thought that was really cool since I had never heard of it before. But even cooler, the day after this episode published, the COO of a company I used to intern at texted me a link to a blog he had guest written for and said “Take a read… you might find this one of interest!”. This blog was a short story about a young woman who had her drink spiked and taken advantage of. The story explains how she got her courage back. At the end of the blog, Tony notes that this story was inspired by a Shark Tank pitch he’d seen on the show… the pitch of Shirah and her company NightCap. What a cool, random connection – that I published my episode with Shirah on a Tuesday and that blog was published the very next day, without either of us knowing about the other. Doesn’t that just show how important this story is?! Drink spiking is a terrible, horrific crime and deserves to be shared about because it is more common than one might think. Again, I can’t be more honored that my podcast gets to be a platform to share causes like NightCap’s… something that is helping the world stay safe.“