Ep. 123 How To Curate A Career You Love By Taking Every Opportunity With Irene Agbontaen

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Ceos, Feminsim, Advice, Self-improvement, Business, Women In Business, Stories, Education, Marketing, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Ceo, Women Leaders, Money, Careers, Success

4.4 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Irene Agbontaen is a someone whose career is defined by being the change she wanted to see. Back in 2018, she was becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of clothes on the market for taller women, so she took matters into her own hands and founded TTYA, which stands for Taller Than Your Average. The brand saw monumental success, however, since then, she's curated a multifaceted career for herself just by saying yes.

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IRENE

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CHAPTERS

0:00 introduction

1:39 Her childhood & aspirations

10:15 Having a picture of what you want to do

12:14 How she got her first big break

19:49 Hustling to get her brand off the ground

27:12 Getting her first order from selfridges

29:19 True hustle & running club nights

34:34 The biggest challenges she faced

42:17 How to turn everything into an opportunity

50:00 Not changing yourself to fit a career

56:20 Buying 2 properties & how she did it

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0:00.0	It's the first customer of the day.
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0:24.4	Make it count with SumUp.
0:26.2	Download the app or find out more at sumup.com.uk. Irene Agbontine is someone whose career is defined by being the change she wanted to see.
0:47.3	Back in 2018, she was working in selfages and becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of clothes on the market for taller women.
0:53.3	So she took matters into her own hands and founded TTIA,
0:56.5	which stands for taller than your average. The brand saw monumental success being worn by huge
1:01.6	celebrities like Kylie Jenner right from the beginning. However, Irene says it was never about her brand.
1:07.5	Instead, it was about opening up a conversation about inclusion one thing that really
1:11.4	struck me throughout irene's career is how much she built this career block by blog she's now in a
1:17.5	full-time job she still has this business she's still been really really committed to her journey
1:24.2	and what she wants to change about the world. What I really wanted from this episode is to
1:28.2	show how much you can really build your career from a number of different things that you're good at
1:34.2	by really just saying yes to opportunities. She is such a good example over that. I honestly like just
1:40.8	just wait till you hear her whole career trajectory and how she's made each decision.
1:45.2	I think it's really, well, it's very inspiring for me.
1:47.8	And I think that it is really empowering to know how much you can decide your future by saying yes to opportunities, by working hard, and by just kind of saying yes and figuring out the rest after.
2:01.5	Before we get into the podcast, if you could just go and rate this on whichever podcast
2:06.5	app you are listening to this on, it makes a huge difference to the podcast and the types
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