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The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring amazing entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it.

The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes, you'll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits.

It's a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many.

Now, in this special episode, I sit down with Sean Sutherland.

She's a fantastic entrepreneur that's focused on her current company that's called a plastic planet.

And she's been doing a really incredible job all across the world and her story is really inspirational.

So I really wanted to sit down and dig in deep with all the things that she's been working on over the last few years and specifically around her exit.

And she led a company that got exited to the Hutt group and it was a first acquisition in the beauty space in a major growth strategy category here.

And I think that there was a lot of exciting knowledge nuggets here that Sean has to share.

So without further ado, let's dive into the success of the exit with Sean Sutherland.

Hey everybody, today I am joined by Sean Sutherland and she is the co founder of a plastic planet. How are you doing today, Sean?

I'm very good. Thanks Steve. How are you doing doing great doing great. I'm really looking forward to unpacking your exit and kind of digging into entrepreneurship.

But before we get into all of that, let's talk about your background, your origin story. How did you get into business and entrepreneurship?

It's interesting that if I look at my parents and maybe even my upbringing, there was nothing remotely entrepreneurial in my upbringing.

My father was a doctor, my mother was a teacher. So it was those kind of typical professions as you would always think of them back in those days.

And then it was really when my first career was in advertising. And I moved up to London in age 20, started working in that fantastically exciting world of advertising, which it was in the late 80s.

Those days are long gone. You would not be having the lunches that we used to have then.

But it was when the company I was working for was acquired by parties and then it was merged with three other agencies.

It was about a morph into this 80 million turnover company. And that was the moment where I thought, I am not a big company person.

That was the time that I decided that I was going to leave and set up my first business.

So there was age 25. And I set up my first business really with no foresight or planning or what was that business even going to do.

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