#627: The Power of Persistence: Navigating Failure and Finding Your Niche
Boutique Chat
Ashley Alderson
5 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What happens when your business fails, and you lose everything? Kelly Shiley, CEO of Mary Square, joins the show to share her raw and inspiring journey from launching her business in the kitchen with a baby by her side to losing her home after a business deal fell through. Learn how she bounced back from early failures, the importance of believing in yourself, and how to persist when everything seems to be falling apart. Kelly shares insights on finding traction, understanding market gaps, and why failure is often the first step to success.
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| 0:00.0 | Business can be a lonely game, but it doesn't have to be. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to Boutique Chat, where we explore community over competition |
| 0:12.0 | and how to scale your company with the balance and the happiness that we all seek. |
| 0:16.0 | We'll hear from product-based businesses of all types, retailers, e-commerce, and wholesale brands, |
| 0:21.7 | along with industry experts shaping the future of our industry. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host, Ashley Alderson from the boutique hub, and I can't wait to chat. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast this week. This is going to be such a good episode, Kelly. I'm so glad that you're here since I've had a chance to meet you and visit with you. I think just on a random Zoom call, we emailed each other and said, we should just really visit, get to know each other. I've been looking forward to this conversation ever since. So thanks for being here today. |
| 0:53.8 | Absolutely. I'm so excited. |
| 0:55.5 | This is my first podcast ever. So I'm just yeah, I'm really excited. I've, I've kind of grown |
| 1:02.6 | my company in the shadows and now I'm ready to step out and share some of all of the journey. |
| 1:08.6 | So this is exciting. Well, you have an incredible journey to share. |
| 1:11.7 | So I'm so lucky I get to be the first one to bring this to everyone. I know so many people |
| 1:15.8 | listening, especially in the apparel space, know your company and admire your company. |
| 1:20.3 | You've built something absolutely incredible. But I think they're going to be shocked to hear your |
| 1:24.2 | backstory today. So let's jump into it. Let's start there. Talk to me about |
| 1:28.1 | the earliest version of you getting started in business. How'd that go? Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:33.9 | The company started. I stayed at home with my kids for eight years. And if you've read my story |
| 1:38.8 | online just a little bit, after I had my daughter, she was six months old. I decided to try to make a product and like so |
| 1:45.9 | many entrepreneurs started in the kitchen. I think I went a little harder in the beginning than |
| 1:50.9 | some people. I ended up losing my house about six months into the company, made some very bad |
| 1:57.6 | inventory decisions. My business partner at the time, she was funding the company |
| 2:03.1 | and decided that she was all done funding the company when the bills came due. And so we had |
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