Weekly Quickie Episode 10: The Chaos of Launching Betty and Losing Vibrators in Fiji

Jo (00:13.568)
and welcome to the Girls Get Off podcast. We are Viv and Jo, co-founders of sexual wellness brand Girls Get Off. Welcome to the weekly quickie. This is where we're going to keep you updated on what's going on with GGO, what's new in the vibrator world and a bit of what's going on in our personal lives. This episode will be released every Wednesday. And if you like it, make sure you're following along and leave us a comment. Yeah.

Wow, this week is going to be a pretty funny one. We've had some messages which we'll talk about at the end, but people have had their vibes taken off them in Fiji, a good friend of ours, and I'm talking whole collection. But we'll come back to that in the meantime. We have now launched Batti and yet again, it was another failed launch attempt, thanks to yours truly. I looked back, I think the only launch.

that has gone to plan was when we launched GGO. We launched Missy way back and that only went to plan because we didn't have a plan. Well, we were saying there was just too many things happening and now we've decided one, the reason we're saying it didn't go to plan is because we had all these moving pieces like where the product photos, what's the description, when's it going live? We've got emails going out, which someone else does. So for all these pieces to come.

and fall into place because we were all doing, you you're doing one thing, I'm doing another thing, I'm talking to the email girls, but hadn't reminded you that the product was, you know, the email's being sent out. So then the product page wasn't live. So people were getting emails and then not being able to click through to a product. So all these little things moving around, but it's fine. I've made a product checklist now. And you know what I realized yesterday, I was having a drink with a couple of new friends. They have a dog treat business and

they mentioned SMS and I thought, no, we absolutely didn't even text people that we launched, Betty either, didn't even cross my mind. So I've put that on the checklist for future and that will be happening. So if you're listening now and you live in Australia and New Zealand and we've siphoned your phone number from a previous order, you should be getting a text message soon. That's so funny. That's so good. Yes. And Betty is now launched and shipping everywhere it should and everything.

Jo (02:38.712)
house. enjoy. that's right. Because then when it did launch, people couldn't ship to Australia. it couldn't ship anywhere, could it? It couldn't ship anywhere. Yeah. So people were trying to purchase but couldn't even purchase it. Yeah, it was a, it was a giant, another giant fail. But, and also, I think what could have helped our situation just to help others, you know, that so they don't make the same mistake as us. One person owning that

sheet of making sure everything's ticked off is key because they can delegate all the jobs. nobody, I don't think any of our team kind of looked at everything across the board. Hey, so we didn't even do a test order, obviously. No, no, but we've this is going to happen next time. It's fine. But do know what?

When I said this to a friend recently, she said, this is so refreshing because I thought you guys have everything sorted. said, Emma, we've never done a product launch. There's never been a product launch where we haven't had something happen. But I think that's quite common and why we normally have a rule of be on the computer. But because we launched on a Sunday, which is also on the checklist, we're only launching on weekdays, that when everyone's online.

On a Sunday, my phone's on Do Not Disturb all weekend. And then I thought, sweet, it's all good. The product page and everything is up now. So when there was an issue and I'm meal prepping, not looking at my phone, it's in the other room, then it wasn't until after an hour that I think I got a message from you saying that there was something wrong. And I was like, God, now I'm doing test orders and seeing if it works. But you live and you learn. Yeah.

Like I just happened to be coming back from Auckland. I'd gone up to Cirque du Soleil, which was amazing by the way. You got to go and check that out everybody. Yeah. And I even, I had a stop on the way home to do a few last minute product page things. So the launch was all ready to go. And then by the time I got home, it was all go, but no go. Cool. All right. Happy days.

Jo (04:50.284)
Secondly, we've talked about it a little bit before, but we are still looking for dancers. So if you'd seen the viral video on Instagram of me on the Promenade at Bondi dressing up in a vulva suit with a sign that said, free vibrators, show us your sexy dance. We're still looking for people who want to either be the dancer or the person who's filming. We will edit all the content, but we want people to maybe like, I'm imagining like two girlfriends or people who are very much out there, people.

people, people, they want to dance, happy to film, give out vibes, get out in public. Then, yeah, we want to send these people to a few different locations around Australia and get that moving. So if you're interested, make sure you flick us an email. Tell us why you'd be great. Jellylegs at girlsgetoff.com. Like I say, you don't have to edit the footage, just filming it would be awesome. And we'll go from there. Also, we probably shouldn't say dances are needed because we've literally done the job.

Yeah, you're right. We just need people who are shameless. Yeah. So let's take the word dancers out of there because that's going to scare off shitloads. You're right. Well, I'm certainly no dancer. We both are not. All right. Now, Jo, I was having a conversation with you off

recording and we got halfway through and I said, stop, we need to talk about this in the podcast. talking about the podcast is actually ruining a lot of our casual conversations because the amount of times we stop each other and say, no, I'm not saying anything else, I'm going to save it for the podcast is getting to be quite a lot. But this morning you just had an interview for a photo shoot tomorrow and I was like, I don't understand what this photo shoot is and what you have to wear. I'm so confused.

Yeah, well, speaking of we are not dancers, guess who has to like dress up in rave clothes and dance for a photo shoot tomorrow? So it's for Women's Day? Women's Day, it's the Village NZ are starting mum raves for mums. And yeah, so it's just kind of needed some mums to advertise.

Jo (07:05.376)
of this to get the word out and for the photo shoot and I don't understand again. are these going to be like before work or what time of day raves for mums? Raves for mums. Yeah. It's like one hour slots. So you've got like, and they just go and like have a dance party for an hour and then go back to their kids so that you don't have the hangover and everything that like you don't need to a big babysitter night to get out there and

have fun type of thing. So yeah, really cool concept. Day, night, morning, afternoon, evening? No, I think it's like evening. So from what I've seen, there's like starts at five and maybe the last one. So they'll do like five o'clock, six o'clock. They'll just be time slots. Yeah. Anyway, I don't think they realized that they have asked the least coordinated dancer and

least photogenic person to be in this shoot tomorrow. yeah. You are photogenic. We will have a couple of shots beforehand and which I don't think is the point of the mum raves, but photo shoot. And are you dancing with other people or it's just going to be you dancing by yourself and getting photos taken off you? No, that would have been a hard no. I think it's only like I feel comfortable because Rach Tani is doing it.

as well, so. she'll be dancing. So that's fun. She's bringing all the rave clothes. She's our girl. So she's doing it and Larissa, who's organising the whole thing, is doing it as well. So there'll be three of us. There's hair and makeup. So luckily, I don't have to worry about any of that. That makes way more sense. When you said you needed rave clothes, in my head, I had a Ugonu, like, is this a fancy dress? For some reason, my mind went back to like,

80s, sweat bands, that's not even related though. That's like jazzercise, that's what I had in my head. And then you're talking about rave, you need some speed dealer sunglasses, that kind of thing. But it's a mum rave, so maybe not the speed dealer sunglasses. Okay. Well, yeah, well, I was thinking about going in my standard like rock chick vibe, you know, like, if I'm going to like anything music related, that's kind of like, you know, that feminine kind of...

Jo (09:29.934)
scrunch style, whatever you'd call it. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, but then you're not putting nipple pasties on and like a fishnet. No. T-shirt or something. Right. This is what I thought. But then I received the brief last night that says colourful. Exactly the net tops and stuff. Yeah, so.

We're gonna see how this goes. Rach would wear some nipple pasties, but if it's a rave for mums, they would get freaked out if everyone was wearing full-on festival gear. So I think you'll be fine. This is true. And Rach actually sent a photo of her racks of clothing she's got, rave She was talking about. And there's heaps of feather coats and stuff. And I'm like,

That'll be me. Love. That will be me. Yes. Cool. Yeah. Thoughts and prayers for the photo shoot. I feel like if I'm putting effort into getting out of the house, I should really organise things that I could, you know, could help my potential dating life. And you've just had a birthday.

as well, no billboard for you this year. I messaged Jo in the morning of her birthday saying, you can relax, it's okay, there is no surprises planned. Yeah, you're like, give your nervous system a rest. That's right. I forgot I said that, yeah. Yeah, I was like, thank you. Yeah, no, we love her under the radar birthday. Love, love, love. You went to Cirque du Soleil? Although, actually, sorry, on that.

Just from you reposting that reel on GDO for my birthday, I think we have a total of 12 mails that have added me on Instagram and I'm just not accepting them because I'm like, you totally just saw that ad and I'm not. And if you're late to the party for lack of a better term, last year was Joe's 40th. we, I came back to NZ, Joe said, oh, I just want to have a night out in Auckland and Hannah.

Jo (11:41.518)
and myself organized for a billboard on Ponsonby Road. We had little pre-drinks before dinner down the road at Hotel Ponsonby. Then we walked down the street and the billboard was right opposite the place we were going for dinner. And it was a picture of Joe. said, naughty, 40 and available. Was that right? And then datejoe.com. And we had a little website. Went viral on TikTok. I think we got like 7,000 hits in a few days or when that kicked off. And Joe got lots of, lots of ads.

And then it's just circled back around. that's the reference there to the randoms adding you. And I noticed you must have gone to private now. I thought you were always public, but was the billboard incident from last year, did that turn you private? Do you know what turned me private? No, it may have for a little bit actually. And then I was like, okay, brave enough again, like open it up.

something else must've gone a little viral or something on Girls Get Off with us tagged in it. Like there was something or even it might've been stories or something like that. And I noticed just all of a sudden you get, you start getting heaps of like fake accounts. in, and because that's like so my family impersonal or something, I'm like, I don't want.

fake accounts, sure normal people can follow me, but. Yeah, good point. I actually should tag your GGO account anyway, your JoesandOz Instagram. That's your work one. you know, that isn't even a thing. I never did anything with that one. Yeah. And so back to our friends. it's Rach who we just spoke about. She went to Fiji last week and we get a message from her that

customs there took all her sex toys. Like she got a written bloody infringement notice. I'm not sure if they got fined. And then the people that she was with, everybody got all their sex toys taken off them going into Fiji. So I've had a friend message this before as well. And same thing, she got it taken off her. She had Tiff taken off her and I couldn't understand how it worked.

Jo (14:07.98)
I said, is it a country where you arrive and everyone's bags go through the X-ray? And then talking to Rach, I asked her as well, because my other friend had said, we got taken aside. And I also said to Rach, are they targeting the couples? Because when I put this up last time when someone got toys taken off them, other people had said, I got mine taken and fine. It was all good. And then when I asked Rach, she said, yeah.

her and Tiki had been pulled over, there was another couple at another bench. So I wonder whether they target people who are in couples thinking, these guys will be here for some fun. And if you were just going solo or something, then maybe you'd be okay. That's my hypothesis. I need to get more information from her, but they are illegal in Fiji and they will take them off you if possible. I've heard of people getting L through, cause they didn't know what it was and then...

a missy as well because they thought it was for something else like a face thing. But if it's like a dilly or a ditty, something, you know, a poly, something that's more obviously a vibrator, then they're a bit more risky. But I wonder whether they're actually just targeting couples spot checks. Do you know what? Wonder if it would be interesting to know if the customs workers are males and they are just like, no, we got to work for it over here. We've got no sex toys.

I want to see these men like working for it, you know? I don't know. I think my other friend had, my other friend had a female agent, but I don't know. It's quite a religious country, isn't it? Yeah. So maybe that has something to do with it. Anyway, what's our work around here? I think we either need to design a disguise, a toy in disguise or something.

be going to Fiji and getting toys taken. Yeah, maybe we need one of those things that looks like, remember I had a sample a while ago and it looks like a swan? And so it sits on a little, or one that looks like a little nightlight. So it can sit on your bedside, like the charger is a pad instead of something you stick in and then it just sits and it looks like a light, but it's actually a vibe. So maybe we come up with a couple of sneaky, a travel edition.

Jo (16:34.912)
in case you get pulled aside. All right. Our final thing for today's episode is to let you all know the topic for the last quickie of each month, which is based around submissions from you guys and our DMs or emails, et cetera.

And this month we want to know how you met your partner in the wild. If you met in the wild and not on a dating app, we want to know details. How, what were you doing? Everything. Could be anything. Do you always ask couples this? I always like to ask couples, how did you meet? No. No? Yeah. I'm always so curious. It's a good question. It's a good question. But do you know I've actually

The last month or so I've gone to a couple of things and it has reminded me of how much nicer it would be to meet someone in the wild than on a dating app. So yeah, we need inspiration. That's the topic for the month. We want some inspo. Yeah. We don't want to do, no more billboards. No more billboards. We to step away from the billboards. We want to get your inspo on how you met in the wild. I'm going to be fascinated to hear this. And if we share your story, your submission,

on the podcast, will send you a $50 store credit. How does that sound? Sounds perfect. Wonderful. All right. If you haven't already, make sure you check out our Sex Files series, which is every Friday, released every Friday. The last guest we had, which was also our first episode of the Sex Files, was Rebecca Kyle, and that's out now. And I think this Friday,

we launch our episode with Patricia? I think so, which is also a goodie. So for six files, we ask, guess, the same nine questions every time. I, you know, we filmed the first one with Rebecca and then the second episode with Patricia and the difference, same questions, but the answers and the rabbit holes we went down, insane.

Jo (18:50.432)
I don't think I've laughed so hard in a podcast before and Jo and I will often say it takes a lot to shock us in this world and to make me laugh because I feel like we've heard it all but we haven't even scratched the surface when you start to hear some of the things that Patricia talked about. So let us know what you think and look if you're not already make sure you're following the podcast wherever you listen. Send those submissions to us, jellyleagues at girlsgetoff.com. You can check us out on Instagram at girlsgetoff.

and the Facebook group Girls Get Off Uncensored. And we'll see you next week. Perfect, bye.