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

Legendary Ventures

We back founders building across consumer, retail, and technology products.
Early and Growth.

Contact: ken@legendary.fund

Venture Partner / Programs

Advisor / Due Diligence

Whimstay

• The leading last-minute Vacation Rentals Marketplace.

Board of Advisors / Strategic Marketing

Statis Ring

• Make the shift from a traditional business card to a wearable networking and payment tool.

Options and Traders Network

• Created a community for trading and an open network for startups and angel investors
• Created trading theories to simplify technical analysis for beginner and advanced traders
• Coach investors with little to no experience to understand technical analysis and angel investing

Founder / Strategic Trading Mentor

AreaHype

• Strategically recruited a team of successful entrepreneurs and proven founders.
• Created the logo, brand, organizational structure, and website.
• Developed the sales, marketing, SEO, and partnerships strategy.
• UX/UI - Flutter Frontend Software Engineer

Co-Founder / Strategic Partnerships

LaunchCode

• Manage and maintain relationships with 11 corporate accounts.
• Created multiple email sequences with 70%+ open and 8%+ click through rates.
• Qualified 2500 high growth startup leads from Series A+ for outbound leads.
• Plan, host, and execute quarterly stakeholder events with clients and alumni.

Strategic Partnership Manager / Company Relations

• To build a skilled workforce by creating pathways for driven people seeking careers in technology.
• Founded by Jim McKelvey in 2013 (Founder of Block Inc. NYSE: SQ)

Business Development Manager / Company Relations

Ganas Ventures

• Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed / seed Web 2 & 3 community-driven startups in the US and LATAM.
• Reach out to me (@Ken Ma) if you fit this thesis, we invest $100k.

Deal Partner / Strategic Sourcing

Clearco

• eCommerce Products, SaaS Businesses + Marketplaces, Apps.
•  eCommerce Web Services, and webinars, training videos, online certifications.
• 3+ months of revenue at or greater than $30k/month from connected sales platform(s).
• Reach out to me (@Ken Ma) if you fit this thesis.

DOODEO

• Showcase your talent, build credibility, and grow your fan-base.

Volux Capital

We invest in startups developing solutions for data collection/privacy, robotics, and supply chain operations.

• Syndicated $1,000,000 into 23 startup investments from Seed - Series A.
• 5 Exits:NASDAQ:(DPRO, DBGI, MGRM, JTAI). Mealthy(Acquired).
• Qualified and ran due diligence with 500 startup founders.
• Board of Adviors: Whimstay (Series A), Statis Ring (Seed) Doodeo (Seed)

Founder / Managing Director

🎯 Let's talk strategy -- 10+ years of startup experience | 10+ years of investing experience

✏️ I am all about the game plan, from launch to exit -- I make it happen.

👨‍🚀 I am highly proficient in sales, marketing, SEO, and UX/UI Flutter for web and mobile.

🚀 I am a co-founder of AreaHype and HypeX.app. Support Businesses and Get Tipped

Startup Hustle XYZ - What It's Like to be a Midwest Founder: 
https://omny.fm/shows/startup-hustle/what-its-like-to-be-a-midwest-founder

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