60. Building a Successful Swimwear Brand from Scratch, Creative Freedom in Self-Funding Your Business, and Finding the Right Business Partner with Stay Wild Swimwear Founders, Natalie Glaze and Zanna Vandijk

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Natalie Ellis

Self-improvement, Marketing, Education, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We’re getting cheeky in this episode on The BossBabe Podcast with BossBabe COO, Danielle Canty, and Stay Wild Swimwear Founders, Natalie Glaze and Zanna Vandijk. Having no business degrees or background in fashion, Zanna and Natalie lets us in on how they created a sustainable and ethical swimwear brand that found massive success in only 18 months, even catching the eye of Anna Wintour at London Fashion Week. With such fast and wild success, Danielle, Zanna, and Natalie have an honest discussion about the struggles of balancing it all and the importance of finding the right business partner. Are you looking to start a business of your own but afraid that you don’t have the education, money, or experience? Then this is the episode for you, so get ready to be inspired! This episode is sponsored by The 90 Day Planner by BossBabe: bossbabe.com/goals Discover how to grow your audience on Instagram by 10,000 ideal clients in 30 days: bossbabe.com/growthatinsta

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0:00.0	We're looking for a business partner not to find the replica of your skill set to find skills which you don't have and then that's really helpful for growing your business.
0:19.0	Running a business isn't comfortable and it isn't easy. It's not just like a walk in the park you've got to
0:24.2	really put the work in.
0:27.0	Welcome to the Boss Bay Podcast a place I we share with you the real behind
0:32.2	the scenes of building successful businesses,
0:34.0	achieving people performance and learning how to balance it all.
0:37.0	I'm Danielle, co-founder, C.O. and President of Boss Baba, and I am so excited to be bringing you this episode today.
0:44.0	I am actually joined by two incredible Brits.
0:47.0	Their names are Zana and Natalie,
0:49.2	and they are the founders of State World Swimwear.
0:51.7	And I was really excited to be interviewing them on this
0:54.3	episode because not only they create an incredible brand with amazing Swimwear
0:58.8	pieces but they're actually rooted in incredible ethics and their whole brand is built on this
1:05.3	concept around looking after the ocean and making sure they are creating a
1:10.0	brand which is sustainable not only is their factory within walking distance of where they both live in London,
1:15.2	but they actually made sure that they were utilizing plastics and making that into amazing products. So,
1:21.8	truly incredible and what they have achieved
1:24.1	in the last 18 months as you're hearing this story
1:26.2	from being in huge stores within London
1:28.6	to having conversations and being spotted by Anna Wintour
1:32.1	at London Fashion Week is truly incredible and inspiring and you know not only did we discuss all of these things and really got down into the details for you guys but we also kind of just discuss the roller coaster of entrepreneurship and what that looks like and it's something that's you know I really passionate about lifting the lid on and sharing with you guys that it's not all roses. There are hard days, but actually you know it's worth it and it's worth pushing through and when you
1:54.1	surround yourself with people that are willing to support you on that it truly is a
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