Episode 24

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20th Jan 2023

Eps 024: Overcoming the Challenges of Scaling Sales & Finding Investors with Nikky Starrett (Part 2)

After being dismissed in a masculine-dominated society, Nikky Starrett, a nonbinary founder, discovers the outrageous truth that she must get an investor's wife on board before they can secure a million dollar investment for her custom luxury Turkish cotton towel business, and sets out to prove them wrong.

"Women and nonbinary founders get less than 3% of global investment, but we are more likely to succeed."  Nikky Starrett

You will discover:

1. How to bootstrap a business if you're struggling to get investment? 

2. How to create a product with a unique value proposition that stands out from competitors?

3. How to go from hating sales to being excited about sales ?

Nikky Starrett is the founder of Pomp and Sass, a company specialising in custom luxury Turkish cotton towels. She is passionate about sustainability, social enterprise, and creating unique and useful products.

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Úna Doyle is the founder of CreativeFlow.tv - a speaker, business strategist and impact coach. Business owners hire Úna to help them to build a business they could sell tomorrow, but don't want to because it's highly profitable, fun to run and they get to make a bigger impact on the world.

In every episode, Úna and her guests share strategies, stories and wisdom to help you achieve your goals too.

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She Leads Business Season 2 - Introduction

She Leads Business Season 2 - Outro

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She Leads Business
She Leads Business
Welcome to the "She Leads Business" show where you'll discover stories, strategies and actionable wisdom for people of all genders!

Here, Una interviews and coaches female and non-binary owners and leaders of small and medium-sized businesses.

You're in the right place if you want a more aligned success, to make a greater impact and to have happy engaged high-performing and in-flow teams that you trust to get the job done.

Allowing you to ditch the stress and fire-fighting, to focus on your most fulfilling high-value work that you can be proud of and to have the financial and time freedom to live the life you truly desire and deserve.

Your host is Una Doyle, founder of CreativeFlow.tv and she's a Speaker, Business Strategist and Impact Coach. Business owners and leaders hire her to help them to achieve their vision with her "Impact Driven Growth"tm model and propriety "Double Your Profits" software.

Yet not every business owner is in the position to hire Una, so she created this podcast to help you to achieve the goals and impact you desire too.

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Una Doyle

If you don't know me yet, I've been speaking, coaching and consulting since 2003, with my biggest audience to date 2,000 staff at AsdaWalmart's UK HQ.

I'm the founder of CreativeFlow.tv - a business for good - and business owners hire me to help them achieve Impact Driven Growth.

I do this through speaking, workshops and coaching to get the results they desire in terms of productivity, performance and profitability in ways that allow them to make a greater impact for themselves, their teams, clients and the communities that they care about.

Over the years I've worked for huge corporates, scrappy SMEs and everything in between in roles including sales, marketing, change management and employee engagement and communications.

This experience together with my specialised training and innovative approach means you get a different perspective that's grounded in proven principles that work.

So you can:
- Ramp up your revenues
- Grow high performing in-flow teams you can trust
- Take more time off