doozi

Building the next biggest social media app for travel. Think TikTok meets Tripadvisor.

Co-Founder

You're Not a Bad Person Podcast

Podcast host for You're Not a Bad Person podcast. A self-help podcast dedicated to helping you step into the most authentic version of yourself. 

Your past does not define you, discredit you, or disqualify you. New episodes every Wednesday.

Podcast Host

Bro Dough

Snacks that allow you to relive your childhood through your tastebuds in a healthier way. Fun, functional, nostalgic. Find our new cookie dough bites in select Canadian retail locations! 🍪

Founder & CEO

➕ Follow along while I build a business in an industry I’m brand new to — and share the unfiltered reality of what that actually looks like.

I’m Erica — a creator, entrepreneur, and storyteller helping people break the rules they were taught to follow… and build lives that actually feel like theirs.

Over the past 4 years, I’ve created raw, real, and radically honest content that’s generated nearly 1 billion impressions, built a community of over 300,000, and sparked conversations around self-worth, shame, failure, and freedom.

📍 I went from perfectionism and plastic surgery…
➡️ to healing and self-love.
📍 From launching a cookie dough brand into hundreds of stores…
➡️ to filing for bankruptcy and starting over with nothing.
📍 From hiding my past as a s*x worker and “failed founder”…
➡️ to owning my story — and helping others do the same.

In 2020, I met my now co-founder Gillian Gallant on Bumble BFF (true story). Our friendship & love for travel took us all over the world.

We both lost our businesses last year, and this brought us closer. We bonded over loss, reinvention, and the fire to build something better. 

Now we’re building doozi — the next big social media app for travellers and creators. 👀

We’re building in public. Sharing the messy middle. And showing up every day to create something that gives people — especially creators — the power, opportunity, and visibility they’ve earned.

This isn’t just a business. It’s a movement.

If you’ve ever felt like you needed permission to post, speak up, or live your life differently — I’m here to say: you don’t.

💌 My content is about starting before you’re ready, rewriting your story, and being the proof that it’s never too late to do it your way.

…and giving the trolls a front-row seat to your glow-up.

Keep showing up, unapologetically.

✨
With love,
Erica

📬 Sponsorships + collabs: hello@ericarankin.com
➕ Follow me everywhere @acceptingerica

Erica Rankin

I’m not a multi-millionaire.
I don’t have an exit.
I’m not on any fancy 30 under 30 list.

But I am someone who recognizes that those things aren’t indicators of success.

Success is literally defined as “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.” 

Success, for me, has looked more like:

→ Reinventing myself when my life fell apart (hello bankruptcy & business failures)
→ Building again when I didn’t know how 
→ Choosing growth over comfort
→ Taking risks people told me not to take

Don’t get caught up in the shiny stuff you see on here (or anywhere, for that matter).

You need to find the definition of success on your own.  

Or rather, your aim or purpose.

What does success mean to you?

🫶

Disrupting the creator economy. | Content Creator | Co-Founder of Doozi & Doozi Marketing ✈️📱

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I’m Canadian, but I love America, and my American friends. 🇺🇸

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

Whether you’re celebrating with family, friends, or on your own - I hope you can take some time to find gratitude.

Sending love to those who need it today - I know the holidays aren’t fun for everyone.

And thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes, it’s always nice to hear twice a year (don’t ask me why we celebrate in October lol). 🇨🇦

Send me some pumpkin pie will ya? 🥧

I just tried ordering something from a very popular brand.

…and they lost me as a customer, here’s why:

(I won’t tag them but it’s an athleisure brand many people know) 🙃

I couldn’t get an answer to a question I had about a product.

Their customer service is AWFUL.
So they lost me to their competitor.

Which makes me think how many other e-commerce brands are missing out on sales??

Customers want real-time communication.
… and if they don’t get it, they click away (like moi). 

Here’s a tool that I think every e-commerce store should have:

LiveChat, powered by Text. 

It lets you:
→ Chat with visitors in real time
→ Handle way more conversations using automation + AI
→ Set up targeted holiday campaigns without needing a dev

This is a no-brainer to me not only as a customer, but as a former e-commerce founder.

It’s not complicated and by communicating quicker with customers, you’ll have higher conversions. 

Stop making it so hard for people to get answers and use tools that get you more sales - especially around the holidays.

Holiday shopping is already stressful enough. 😅

Try LiveChat for free here & get 10% off with this link: https://bit.ly/3Kd6VpI  (They also have ready-to-use holiday campaign templates on their landing page) 👀

#LiveChatPartner

The reality is, most founders SHOULD NOT be founders.

The goal isn't to simply BE a founder...

The goal is to be the BEST PERSON to solve the PROBLEM.

Heard this during a League of Innovators Accelerator call this week with Vivek Sodera, founder of Superhuman.  

The best founders are solving problems they have experienced, first-hand, and they know exactly how to solve it.

And because they've experienced it, they're determined to create the solution.

...and it couldn't be more true.

doozi was created because Gillian and I are not only people who travel frequently, but we're content creators ourselves.

We are building a travel platform for creators, while travelling.
While creating content.
While talking to creators. 

Every. Single. Day.

This post is just a reminder to FOCUS on the people you are trying to help.

Help them better than anyone else can.

If you do that, then you're winning.

🫡

I’m giving away my biggest marketing hacks for scrappy startups.

This got me hundreds of millions of impressions & recognition in my industry:

→ Brand yourself like a product - this might feel weird, but what’s something you could wear, or do, to make you, YOU? For example, we wear pink jumpsuits & bucket hats with airplanes on it now at every industry event & in our content. This one thing has made us memorable & we’ve gotten meetings that might have been more challenging to get otherwise. 

→ Be messy - share stuff online that most would NEVER share. It’s more relatable and actually builds trust with your audience. What are you struggling with? What have you learned? People admire success but connect with vulnerability. 

→ Be a giver in your industry - set some time aside to connect with other founders, and mentor, when you can. I am a big believer that when you contribute, it comes back to you (but that’s not the only reason why you should do it). It also opens doors to collaboration & expanding your network for future opportunities. Plus it feels good to help.

Let me know if you like this & I can share more.

I haven’t ever really spent money on marketing (and neither has my co-founder) & we’ve collectively built communities surpassing 2M+.

We’re going to be doing some wacky, scrappy campaigns for doozi soon (we’re coming for you Bumble Inc.) ;) 

So stay tuned on more scrappy secrets!!!

Caption this photo:

We’ll buy coffee for the 3 funniest/most clever.

Bonus points if your caption is something HR department wouldn’t approve of. 😏

doozi
Gillian Gallant

PS this is a real photo from a video we took, not AI. 😂

If email marketing feels overwhelming, this video is for you!!!

You know what used to take me hours?

Building campaigns.
Sending follow-ups.
Tracking who opened what.

Now? I can do marketing in minutes.

This is what happens when you stop doing everything manually and start letting AI and automation work for you.

Tools like ActiveCampaign have become a core part of my workflow.

Their autonomous marketing platform doesn’t just automate tasks, it uses Active Intelligence to better understand your audience.

It also:
→ Creates email sequences for you with a single prompt 
→ Scores your leads, tracks every interaction, and updates your customer journeys in real time.
→ Builds full workflows with drag-and-drop (this is my fav feature).

It’s like having a marketing system that runs in the background 24/7,

…while you focus on doing things that really matter (and the things that are A LOT more fun). 😉

Come join the party where marketing is fun & isn’t time consuming.

Try ActiveCampaign for free - and tell me how you like it! 👉 link here: https://lnkd.in/esE_n9Xt

#ActiveCampaignPartner

Denrich Sananda

Arista Technologies Limited

Managing Partner and Senior Consultant

HIMA

Director Lifecycle Services

HIMA Middle East FZE

Headed the Middle East region and reported to the Group CEO in Germany. Responsible for the Transformation of the Middle East region and increasing revenue by 100%.
I managed to increase the business by transforming the mindset of my team from small projects to large project, reactive to proactive, and from selling products to selling solutions. I also strategically increased HIMA’s footprint by investing in Sales Managers and Service Engineers in 8-10 countries.
• Leadership and strategic vision for the region (GCC, Turkey, CIS, Russia, India)
• Develop Strategy for the business to achieve annual targets and drive growth.
• Responsible for P&L, budgets & forecasts.
• Responsibility for Order Intake, Turnover, Profits, and Human Resources Planning
• Liaison and coordination with government authorities
• Inspire, Mentor and Human Capital Development
Achievements:
• Increased revenue from USD 6.7M/ Year to USD 24.0M/ Year in 4 years
• Increased FTE from 27 to 81
• Awarded the ‘Best Performing Region’ in 2016
• Received the award for ‘Most Profitable Region’ in 2015
• Conferred the ‘Best Performing Region Award’ in 2014

Vice President Region Middle East 

Managing Director

Director Technical and Consulting Services

Technical Support Manager

Technical Support Engineer

Prolific Systems & Technologies

Sr. Project Engineer

With over 20 years of experience in the process automation sector, I am a seasoned leader and a certified TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Trainer who co-founded Arista Technologies Limited, a company that provides OT security and service solutions for critical infrastructure and industrial sectors.

My mission is to help clients achieve sustainable profits, market segment leadership, and customer satisfaction by delivering total service life cycle management, risk management, audits and assessments, and functional safety. I leverage my deep technical knowledge, strategic vision, and change management skills to collaborate with key stakeholders across sales, service operations, engineering, strategy, marketing, and R&D, and to drive excellence in new developments and innovation. I have a proven track record of increasing revenue, transforming mindsets, and enhancing performance in diverse and challenging regions, such as the Middle East, India, CIS, and Turkey. I am also a global citizen who is passionate about learning and adapting to new cultures and environments.

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