#143 Sharmadean Reid: On Productivity & Distraction
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sharmadean Reid founded WAH Nails as a side project in 2009 – now it is a huge global well-known business.
In this episode I chat to Sharmadean about productivity and distraction. She has a brilliant Guardian column called Bossing It where she answers modern work questions.
She wrote two WAH nails books, delivered global pop up nail salons for 100s of brands, created a product line with Walgreen Boots Alliance and was awarded an MBE for services to Beauty.
So now she is building a new way to book beauty online with her new company Beauty Stack.
We talk about what she’d learned from starting businesses. Sharmadean’s also working on a new campaign with NatWest which is all about helping small businesses be the best they can be. A big focus is on helping small businesses do more with less and improve their productivity through the NatWest Productivity Blueprint.
The medium article I reference in the opening section of the interview is called “Growing Up Too Fast — Or Why I Closed WAH Nails Topshop”.
Soundbites I love from this episode:
“Why not write a completely new rule for how we determine success?”
“Create your own pic ‘n’ mix from other people’s successful bios”
“You can’t copy someone else’s path”
“Being productive doesn’t mean being chained your desk the whole time.”
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind |
| 0:05.0 | recognizable home improvement brands such as B&Q and Screw Fix, who help make better homes |
| 0:10.4 | accessible for everyone. And who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to be in queue? I definitely do. |
| 0:16.0 | Kingfisher have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will support and prepare for retail's next digital age. |
| 0:24.3 | From infrastructure to data analytics, they are looking for the right people to help them succeed, |
| 0:29.8 | and that could be you. |
| 0:31.2 | They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data |
| 0:35.0 | analytics, data science, e-commerce and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits, |
| 0:41.0 | competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to |
| 0:54.7 | Kingfisher for sponsoring this podcast. |
| 0:56.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. I'm so excited |
| 1:02.0 | to have Sharma Dean Reed on the podcast today. She founded |
| 1:06.4 | Warnales back in 2009 as a side project and now it's a huge global and very well known brand and business. |
| 1:15.0 | She wrote two Warnails books, |
| 1:18.0 | delivered global pop-up nail salons for hundreds of brands, |
| 1:21.0 | created a product line with Walgreen Boots Alliance, and |
| 1:25.0 | Sharmedeen was awarded an MBE for services to beauty. |
| 1:29.7 | Now she is building a new way to book Beauty on line with her new company Beauty Stack. |
| 1:35.2 | In this episode I chat to Sharma Dean about productivity and distractions. |
| 1:39.7 | She is so brilliant when it comes to advice around productivity and she has a brilliant guardian column called Bossing It, where she answers modern work questions |
| 1:48.4 | and a lot of those talk about how to do more and work less which is something I really care about as well. |
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