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Lola Sanchez is the co-founder and COO of Riches & Saint, a seven-figure creative and digital marketing agency based in Irvine, California that serves brands worldwide. She has been building brands and websites since she was 15, spent nearly ten years in corporate marketing and staffing leadership, and has helped brands in more than 20 industries grow. Today she is also a speaker and strategist, runs one-on-one strategy sessions, and co-hosts the Talk Riches podcast with her mom, who is a certified life coach. Lola grew up in Southern California, and her mom had her at 14.

Lola runs the business side of Riches & Saint, a seven-figure agency that handles branding, websites, content, ads, email and SMS. She also speaks at events and on podcasts, builds brands and websites for founders, works one on one with business owners and individuals through paid strategy sessions, and co-hosts Talk Riches, a podcast about the real stuff nobody says out loud. She has been designing, coding and building brands since she was 15.

Lola is based in Irvine, California, in Orange County. She works with clients and speaks at events anywhere, in person or by video, including Newport Beach, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and beyond.

Building a business without losing yourself, branding and marketing, getting unstuck, toxic relationships, bad friendships, faith, and leveling up. She keeps it honest, direct and funny.

Lola is best for business owners who want a straight answer about their brand or marketing from someone who has done it for years, and for people who feel stuck and want a plain plan for what to do next. She taught herself design and code at 15, became the youngest person at her company overseeing 200+ employees, ran marketing for a multimillion-dollar staffing agency, and then built Riches & Saint into a seven-figure agency. She has worked with brands in more than 20 industries, from startups to established companies. If you have something to sell or something to change and you are tired of guessing, you are who this is for.

Founders and owners of ecommerce brands, apparel and streetwear, skincare, med spas, health and wellness, online education, pet services, real estate and service businesses, from brand new to established. If you sell something and want more people to buy it, a session will show you where to start.

Yes. A one-hour strategy session is a good fit when you do not have a big budget yet and need to know where your money and time should go first. You leave with a short list of what to fix, what to keep and what to do first.

Yes. Riches & Saint builds Shopify stores and runs the ads, email, SMS and content that bring customers to them. Ecommerce brands are a big part of the agency's work.

Yes, that is exactly who it is for. Bring the mess. In an hour, Lola helps you sort it into what is working, what is not and what to do next, and tells you honestly if you need a different kind of help.

Yes. Lola works with men and women. Her personal growth sessions lean toward women who feel stuck or want more, and her business and marketing sessions are for any founder or business owner.

A strategy session is a one-hour, one-on-one video call with Lola. You bring the problem, whether that is your brand, your marketing or your next move in life, and you leave with a plain plan. No fluff and no 40-slide decks.

Business & Marketing Strategy ($150) is for founders and business owners who need help with their brand, offer or marketing. Personal Growth Strategy ($100) is for people who feel stuck or want more and are not sure where to start. Both are one hour on video.

After a business session you leave with a short list of what to fix, what to keep and what to do first. After a personal growth session you leave with honest clarity and a plain plan for what to do next.

No. Strategy sessions are coaching and strategy conversations, not therapy, counseling or medical advice. If you need a licensed professional, Lola will tell you honestly.

Choose a session on the Work with Lola page, pick a time on the calendar and pay at checkout. You will get a confirmation email with your video link.

You can reschedule for free up to 24 hours before your session. Cancel 24 hours or more ahead for a full refund. Cancel later or miss the session and there is no refund, but if something real came up, email Lola and she will do her best to work with you.

Yes. Sessions are on video, so you can book from anywhere.

Riches & Saint is a creative and growth agency based in Irvine, California, serving brands worldwide. It has two owners, Lola Sanchez and Izu. Most agencies hand you reports. Riches & Saint builds the whole growth system, from strategy and creative to email, SMS and ads, and measures it by revenue.

Riches & Saint handles everything that makes a brand grow, all under one team. That includes branding and brand identity, high-converting website design, Shopify, Wix, WordPress and Squarespace builds, photo and video content, social media content and UGC, paid ads on Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap, email and SMS marketing, influencer outreach, and app and web development.

A five-day sale for a streetwear client brought in about $71,000 and 300 orders, and nearly $20,000 of it came from SMS. Email and SMS bring in 13% of one client's revenue on a mature list, with zero spam complaints. One apparel list opens at about 62%, and another went up 9.5 points to 47% after the creative was refreshed. A hat brand made about $21,800 in a month on about $12,000 of ad spend, and one brand's Meta spend scaled to about $1,200 a day on winning ads.

Riches & Saint builds the whole growth system and measures it by revenue, not reports. Strategy, creators, shoots, graphics, email, SMS and ads all run under one team, so nothing gets handed off. Everything runs from your own accounts, so you own it.

Yes. Riches & Saint is based in Irvine in Orange County and works with businesses across Newport Beach, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Southern California, and with brands around the world through video calls and remote work.

Brands in more than 20 industries, from startups to established companies, including apparel, med spa, health and wellness, skincare, online education, pet services and real estate. Ecommerce and Shopify brands are a specialty.

Yes, and it is one of the agency's strongest channels. Once a list is built and the creative is working, email and SMS can bring in a large share of a brand's revenue.

Yes. The agency runs paid ads on Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap, and scales the ads that win.

Yes. Riches & Saint builds B2B pipeline and runs lead generation, including conference outreach that brought in more than 100 meetings, with a target cost per lead under $20.

Yes. Everything runs from your own accounts, so you keep access to all of it.

Visit richesandsaint.com or send a message through the contact form on this site, and the team will get back to you.

A brand strategy is the plan for who you are talking to, what you promise them and how you sound. A logo is only one piece of it. Without a strategy, a new logo is just a prettier version of the same confusion.

Rebrand when your business has outgrown how it looks and sounds, when you have changed what you sell or who you sell to, or when your brand makes you look cheaper than you are. Rebranding because you are bored is usually a bad reason.

A brand refresh updates the look, like the logo, colors and fonts. A full rebrand also changes the message, the audience or the positioning. Many businesses only need a refresh.

Not always. If your logo looks dated, is hard to read or does not match your price, yes. If the real problem is your offer or your marketing, a new logo will not fix it. A strategy session will tell you which one it is.

A brand identity includes your logo, colors, fonts, tone of voice, brand guidelines and the files you need for packaging, social media and your website.

Yes. Lola builds logos, brand identities and websites for founders, and Riches & Saint offers full branding, packaging and brand guidelines. Start with the free 10-minute inquiry call.

It depends on what you need, from a simple logo to a full brand system. Book the free 10-minute inquiry call and you will get a clear answer without a long back-and-forth.

Yes. You own your website and you do not own your Instagram. A website also helps people find you on Google and gives you a place to book, buy and build trust.

For selling products, most brands do best on Shopify. For a service business or personal brand, Squarespace, Wix or WordPress can work well. The right choice depends on what you sell and how much you want to grow.

A clear offer at the top, fast loading, easy checkout or booking, and proof like reviews and results. Pretty does not help if people cannot tell what to do next.

Yes. Lola builds brand websites, and Riches & Saint builds high-converting websites and Shopify, Wix, WordPress and Squarespace sites, plus landing pages, funnels and custom app and web development.

Yes. Redesigns are common, especially for sites that look dated, load slowly or do not turn visitors into customers. Start with the free 10-minute inquiry call.

Performance marketing is marketing where you pay for results you can measure, like paid ads, email and SMS, and influencer posts, and you track what each dollar brings back.

ROAS means return on ad spend. If you spend $1,000 on ads and they bring in $5,000 in sales, your ROAS is 5.

UGC is user-generated content, meaning content made by real people instead of a polished brand shoot. It works because people trust it more than ads that look like ads.

Ask who actually does the work and whether it is in-house, ask for results from brands like yours, and ask how they report. Be careful with agencies that promise a number before they have seen your business.

A freelancer is good for one task. An agency is better when you need design, ads, content and development working together toward one goal.

Start by fixing your offer and your website, then spend on ads once people buy without being pushed. A strategy session shows you which one to do first.

Usually you have outgrown where you are, you are afraid to make the next move, or you do not have a clear next step. A plain plan helps with the last one fast.

Name what you want, find the one thing blocking you and take one small step this week. That is what happens in a Personal Growth session with Lola.

A life coach is trained and certified to guide people through personal change, and Lola's mom is the certified life coach on Talk Riches. Lola is a strategist, so she gives you a straight plan based on her own experience building businesses and coming from a hard place.

Yes. Lola can help you decide what to sell, who to sell it to and what to do first. If you need a brand or website after that, she can build it.

Yes. Personal Growth Strategy is a one-hour video session for people who feel stuck or want more, and many of the people Lola works with are women. Men are welcome too.

Use the inquiry form on the Press & Speaking page or email hello@lola-sanchez.com. Lola replies within 2 business days.

Building a business without losing yourself, getting unstuck, faith and business, and coming from a hard place and doing it anyway.

Yes. Lola speaks in person, including across Southern California, and by video anywhere in the world.

Yes. Send a message through the Press & Speaking page and tell her about your show and audience.

Talk Riches is a podcast hosted by Lola Sanchez and her mom about toxic relationships, bad friendships, getting unstuck, faith and leveling up. They started it during COVID because nobody was saying the real stuff out loud.

Talk Riches is relaunching soon. Follow @talkriches on Instagram or visit talkriches.com to hear first.

Saint Haus is a mentorship and community for women who are ready to get unstuck. It is coming soon, and you can join the waitlist on the Saint Haus page.