Friday Q&A on Starting Your Own Business Or Side Hustle with Abi Selby (Founder of spabreaks.com)
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
Ben Cartwright
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
By popular demand, we take on starting your own business or side hustle!
We're joined by the lady who's founded her own wellbeing business and ridden the wave of entrepreneurship - Abi Selby. Together, Zoe, Georgia and Abi answer your questions on imposter syndrome, facing judgement from others, trade unions, hiring staff, boundaries, losing motivation, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Made by Mum is the podcast. I'm Zoe and I'm Georgia and we're here talking |
| 0:07.1 | all things parenthood, you know, the real conversations, tips and tricks, products we love and brands |
| 0:12.8 | we can't live without. Let's get into it. Now we absolutely love a boss babe on the podcast |
| 0:17.9 | and I think today's guest, one of the most kick-ass ones that we've had the pleasure of chatting |
| 0:23.5 | to, actually started her business during her mat leave. This woman's got more energy than anyone |
| 0:29.6 | found out of spa breaks. Today we are very, very excited to be doing a Q&A with the wonderful |
| 0:34.0 | Abby Selby. Welcome. Hi ladies. Thank you for having me. It's so good to be here. Oh thanks for |
| 0:40.1 | coming on. How are you? Very good. Thank you. Yeah. Mids come a holiday, which is always fairly |
| 0:44.6 | stressful, but there's always a nice glass of gin at the end, so it's good. I feel like you should |
| 0:48.5 | be well rested because you own a spa business, but you're probably going to tell us that it's not |
| 0:53.2 | the case. Yeah, I'm probably the person in the world that has the least massages and goes to the least |
| 0:58.0 | part, even though I've got access to 700 of them. I mean, it's amazing to think that you started this, |
| 1:02.8 | where you said you didn't even have any mat leave. So just talk us through how your ideas started |
| 1:08.1 | from maybe a conversation that you had with a friend to what it is today. Talk us through that |
| 1:13.4 | process. Yeah, amazing. Thank you. So I worked in the spa and industry at Spa and Hotel Hospitality |
| 1:18.8 | Industry for about six years, and while there was a chain of hotels, we built a spa. It was that |
| 1:24.8 | light bulb moment that everybody seems to have where you think, hold on a minute, that actually |
| 1:29.4 | isn't anybody doing this particularly well anywhere else. And actually, perhaps I could do something |
| 1:36.2 | equally as good if not a little bit better. So I left the hotel industry and started my |
| 1:41.6 | MPRA agency for a couple of years so that I could get under the skin of, I guess, what was needed |
| 1:46.3 | from the website that I then went on to create. And in the meantime, got pregnant, because that's |
| 1:54.0 | what you do. And three weeks after my elder son was born, I started the business. So I, yeah, |
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