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Founder Focus Ep 12: Lucy Wark of Sexual Wellness Co. Normal, Career Skills Co. FuzzyHQ & Safety & Respect Advocacy Co. Grapevine

Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

Tribe Global Ventures

Investing, Business:investing, Business, Entrepreneurship

51 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Founder Focus, we are joined by Lucy Wark. Lucy is the co-founder of a number of for-profit and not-for-profit entities including:  🤝 Career-accelerating skills @ fuzzyhq.com🥰 Sexual wellness for all @ itsnormal.com🍇 Making startups safer @ askthegrapevine.com This is a great episode for founders with key topics such as: Entrepreneurial Journey: Lucy shares her personal journey to entrepreneurship, which includes moving overseas for education and her involvement in startups, highlighting the diverse paths that can lead to founding a company. Empowering Negotiation Skills: Lucy discusses the importance of negotiation skills, an essential tool for founders who need to navigate deals and partnerships effectively in all fields. A link to Fuzzy HQ's negotiation course Negotiation for Leaders & Operators can be found here.  Insights into Consumer and Social Dynamics: With Lucy's background in social sciences, she shares various "mental models" that help her in her company building journey. Social Impact and Business Models: A theme of Lucy's entrepreneurial focus is combining profit with purpose, by pairing products with educational content. Investment into female founders: Lucy's shares her belief that at least 50/50 investment representation is possible and why.  Grapevine: Why this initiative is so important and what it is seeking to achieve.  And much [email protected]

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0:00.0

Today we had Lucy Wark on our founder focus episode, and I think this was a great episode.

0:15.3

I absolutely loved it. I haven't met Lucy before. I know you've spent some time in one of her

0:19.8

programs through Fuzzy, but I absolutely enjoyed this chat. And what stood out for me was the way Lucy sees the world

0:26.6

and approaches things and we discussed during the chat her mental models in some of the ways that she approaches her own growth journey.

0:33.6

Lucy has multiple companies that we discussed through the episode, Fuzzy being one. Fuzzy's a

0:38.9

career skill development platform that does a range of things including a negotiation course, which

0:44.7

that's how I first meant Lucy going through that course. I love the way she described how she

0:49.0

launched that. I heard the method for launching is itself a good lesson for founders in there.

0:53.5

Yeah. And Lucy's a co-founder of Normal, which is an up-and-coming sexual wellness brand.

0:58.5

In the episode, we don't do a very good job of introing the different businesses.

1:03.1

And then I randomly start talking about the sexual revolution and all sorts of things that make me sound like a tremendous creep.

1:10.1

So it's just important to understand that at the 20 minute mark,

1:14.2

when we do give Lucy the opportunity to explain what normal is,

1:17.9

it wasn't just a random thing on my behalf.

1:20.8

It was a really interesting conversation.

1:23.2

And especially some of the highlights around the role of social media.

1:26.1

I really enjoyed that conversation.

1:27.6

And then we talked about grapevine, an initiative that Lucy's been part of,

1:31.7

why it's required, what the goal is, and the different support the ecosystem is hopefully providing.

1:37.6

Yeah, another important topic.

1:39.4

And the outcome of this was we have to get Lucy on again.

1:42.1

That was a fantastic conversation.

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