Jan Janura and with his wife, Carol Anderson, he is the founder of CAbi and before that Carol Anderson Designs. If you don’t know what CAbi is that stands for Carol Anderson by Invitation. CAbi is one of the most successful women clothing companies in the world and Jan Janura calls himself a dressmaker, but he’s much, much more than that

1. The Hugh Hewitt Show:
JanJanura
The Creator, Founder, and Funder of CAbi Clothes

2. MorningGloryandEveningGrace,America...
Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show!
It’s Hugh Hewitt. Thank you for listening today. This is a special hour. I have a great friend, a
dear friend in studio with me and I asked him to come in and talk to me because in these
economic times he’s not just a job generator. He is a business creator for thousands of people.
His name is Jan Janura and with his wife, Carol Anderson, he is the founder of CAbi and before
that Carol Anderson Designs. If you don’t know what CAbi is that stands for Carol Anderson by
Invitation. CAbi is one of the most successful women clothing companies in the world and Jan
Janura calls himself a dressmaker, but he’s much, much more than that. Jan, welcome to the
Hugh Hewitt Show.

3. Hugh, great to be with you. I always enjoy our times together. This is
a little intimidating and I hope nothing happens here that will hurt
your standing with the FCC, but it’s great to be with you buddy.
Jan
Nothing will happen, but I do think we’re going to change some lives. We are
going to change some lives because some people out there especially women
who want to become CAbi consultants or have thought about it or have never
heard about it but will now want to do it are going to pick up the phone and call
800-501-1412, and I’m going to give that number a few times. I really do believe if
people are sitting around and they feel a call to get involved in an amazing
business this is it. Tell people what CAbi is, Jan Janura.
Hugh

4. Well what CAbi is Hugh, is an extension of a business that Carol and I started 33 years
ago. Carol had a great talent in designing women’s clothes and I said to her that we
should start a business and she said are you insane when I told her that. You don’t
know anything about it. I said think about it for a couple of weeks and we’ll get
together and we started back in 1977 in a garage in Burbank, California with $800.
Our first order was from Nordstrom’s. There was a knock on the back of 4,000 sq. ft.
loft right in the heart of the apparel district and it was the Nordstrom buyers.
Jan
And I want people to understand that you weren’t married at this time. You were
just business partners and remain that way for what 15, 16, 20 years?
Hugh
Jan Sixteen years.
HughThen you said to her?
Jan And then I said [laughing] I think we need to investigate if there’s a
romantic aspect to our relationship. A smooth line!

5. A smooth line-the worst pickup line in history! We’ll come back to that. So it’s 1977
Carol Anderson starts. Every woman driving around will know what Carol Anderson is
one of the greatest names in American fashion. When did you sell Carol Anderson?
Jan
Well, we sold it in 2002, and just like every great story it always has a villain. There
was a villain involved in that and we sold it to a great attorney friend of 18 years
and oh man, it was night fight in a phone booth. [laughing]
Hugh
Jan
That didn’t go well. How long after that did you start CAbi? Hugh
Well, we actually started CAbi in kind of testing it in 2002. I had the idea in
2001, and we started doing focus groups and we gave it to 10 women
around the country while we were selling stores and we sold thousands of
stores through the U.S. We had showrooms in all the major cities throughout
the United States selling Carol Anderson, but then January 1st of 2003, we
started CAbi with 10 women.

6. Yeah, the fetching Mrs. Hewitt is a huge fan of CAbi and I’ve know many
consultants. I know many people that love it, but I don’t know that there are
a lot of guys driving around-I wanted you to come in here to talk about
starting a business and how to grow a business and how people have had
their lives changed by doing a business by becoming a CAbi-what do we
call them?
Hugh
Jan
Hugh
CAbi consultants and how their lives changed because they take that step, but I
also want people to understand you didn’t start with a venture capitalist giving
you 10 million dollars and a design team. Give people a sense of what was in the
garage in 1977.
JanConsultants.
CAbi consultants and how their lives changed because they take that step, but I
also want people to understand you didn’t start with a venture capitalist giving
you 10 million dollars and a design team. Give people a sense of what was in the
garage in 1977.

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