078 How suffering from mental illness led to a passion business, with Laura Young
Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson
5.0 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Laura Young, founder of the jewellery brand, Lexico. Laura was inspired to start her business while pregnant with her second baby, after realising how important creativity is in supporting her mental health.
Fast forward to today and Laura has built a brilliant business from adversity all while juggling motherhood and entrepreneurship. Her jewellery supports others with their own mental wellness incorporating crystals and anxiety-alleviating features.
What You'll Learn In This Episode:
- Laura's inspirational story of starting her business after having Postnatal Depression and why it can be so hard to reach out when you're struggling with mental health issues.
- How Laura has utilised social media and networking groups to grow her business by adopting the strategies that work best for her.
- Some of the biggest and best changes in our life can come from some of the hardest times and for Laura, this has meant building a business from her passion for creativity.
- How Laura's past experiences influence the products she makes and how she uses crystals to promote healing, as well as the features she wants to bring into her designs to help manage anxiety.
Resources:
- My book Making Money Online is available now for pre-order www.makingmoneyonlinebook.co
- Download my FREE Launch Strategy Guide
- Visit my website www.lisajohnson.com
- Follow me on Instagram @lisajohnsonstrategist
- Follow me on Facebook @lisajohnsonstrategist
- Join the discussion at @thefabulous5percent
- Subscribe to my YouTube channel
- Shop Laura's new collection at www.lexicolaura.co.uk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson, the podcast that tells you what it really takes to build a business and the simple steps to get you there. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm determined to share with you the reality of easy, simple business marketing tips to make passive income so that you can start making money online. |
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| 0:46.2 | The Power of PR. Hello, hello and welcome to this week's podcast. Today, I am speaking to Laura Young, who basically helps |
| 0:57.1 | accessorize your outfits with beautiful handmade jewelry. I'm really looking forward to speaking to |
| 1:02.8 | Laura for two reasons. One, we don't get many people on this podcast who actually are into more |
| 1:08.7 | like the craft side, the creative side of what they do. |
| 1:11.6 | We get a lot of people who, you know, are onto the business side or the, they coach in some way. |
| 1:17.7 | And this feels like a, you know, a real get your hands dirty kind of business where you're actually |
| 1:22.1 | making something in a very retail way, which I really like. And the second reason is we're going to talk about a |
| 1:29.0 | subject that I know a lot of my audience have been through, which is postnatal depression, |
| 1:34.6 | which is much more common than people think it is and can be much more debilitating than people |
| 1:43.3 | think when they first hear about post-nature |
| 1:45.5 | depression. So welcome Laura to the podcast. Hi, thanks so much for having me on. No worry. |
| 1:52.3 | So I want to start with why you even got started. I mean, I don't know many people who have |
| 1:57.8 | gone, you know what, I'm just going to start creating jewelry. I'm just going to start making things and selling them. How did you get started? So I've always been in a crafty background. |
| 2:07.4 | I've bled my mum. We have tons of things that I was already interested in and I was actually |
| 2:12.3 | already at the time creating handmade hair accessories. But I'd already got a three-year-old boy and was expecting my second one. |
| 2:24.4 | And with my first, I'd had really bad post-nacle depression. |
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