This episode we find out Chris and Bre likely have a mouse in the house. We also get a full recap on the annual ugly sweater competition and the white elephant gifts that ensued. This may become an annual recap, who knows. Lastly before our amazing guest, Julia tells us about getting suckered into a time share on her vacation. It took about 2 seconds before Chris called what it was, and the team listens and gives advice on time share purchases.

The meat of the episode though, is our discussion with Jermain Magandazi, a Ugandan immigrant to Utah, and the owner of Bombini’s Own a local Utah business, specializing in candles, lip balm, perfume and other locally sourced care products.

We get to dive deep into his story in our discussion. Growing up in Uganda with his Aunt, and then moving to the UK, and finally making it to America. At age 11, he essentially met his parents for the first time in his life. They had spent all that time setting up a proper life for their children here in America.

Of course we get to have a long conversations about the different things he thought of and experienced moving from place to place with such big culture differences. We hear about the first thing he ate in America, and you will be surprised by the reaction.

He came to Utah for college, attending the University of Utah. He talks about how he started the business, on a whim, because he was tired of always having to replace lip balms he lost. So he learned how to make them, testing on his friends. Eventually someone told him to sell them and next thing you know he has an Etsy shop, an Amazon store and now a Brick and Mortar location at 7700 Maple Street in Midvale, Utah.

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