IN CONVERSATION: Cyan Ta’eed

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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Happy Thursday friends! We’re joined today by serial entrepreneur Cyan Ta’eed, who has gone from working out of her parents’ basement in 2006 to building a tech empire in her online design and photography hub, Envato. Over the last couple of years, Cyan has directed her energy and efforts into Hey Tiger, an ethical chocolate brand that functions as a social enterprise, where each bar sold helps community development projects for cocoa farming communities in West Africa. Cyan is incredibly successful, yes, but she’s also kind, and oozes compassion with everything she does. Here, we discuss how she went from being in her mid-twenties with nothing to her name, to being in her late thirties with hundreds of employees, and everything in between. Want more from Cyan? Follow her on Instagram @cyanctaeed. Craving more? You’re only human. Join our glorious Shameless Facebook community, where thousands of like-minded ladies keep each other up to date with the latest celebrity and pop culture stories. Or if Facebook isn't your thing why don't you chuck us a follow on Instagram instead? We know you didn't ask, but yes of course we have a weekly newsletter! So glad you asked. You can subscribe here for recommendations, columns and more super fun things (yes, we clickbaited you and we don't regret a thing. NOT A DAMN THING). Shameless Podcast is very much an independent vehicle that runs on the support of our incredible listeners - that's you! So, if you’d like to support the show, we would like that very much. Hit ‘subscribe’ on Apple Podcasts or ‘follow’ on Spotify, and leave a review if you’re feeling especially generous. Then sit back and bask in our eternal, abundant love. Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). Thank you to our sponsor Keep It Cleaner for making today's episode possible. Use our code SHAMELESS50 at checkout for 50% off your first month. Shameless is a production of Shameless Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by Keep It Cleaner.
0:03.3	Learn how to love running with Steph Claire Smith and Laura Henshaw.
0:06.8	I believe that there are a huge number of people who work just as hard as I did to start something which had just as much
0:15.2	potential but the market wasn't with them. You know the idea is really solid and a
0:20.9	big competitor comes to get them or the technology around that they deal with
0:25.1	changes or something goes really wrong and it is an incredible risk, it's an incredible gamble
0:32.0	starting a business and so while I believe that I've worked
0:37.9	very hard and I believe that I deserve to be here I also cannot avoid being conscious of that there were a huge amount of things that have
0:49.8	gone my way from the education that I received to the parents that I had to the fact that we just
0:54.9	had no competitors coming after us. Hello and welcome to Shameless the Pop Culture
1:14.2	podcast for Smart Women who Love Dumb Stuff. We're
1:17.5	joined today by entrepreneur Diane Taidy, who has gone from working out of her
1:21.4	parents basement in 2006 to building a tech empire
1:24.6	with her online design and photography hub in Vardo. Siamne works with her
1:28.9	business partner and husband Kollis and is Australia's richest woman under 40. But making money isn't her end game at all.
1:35.5	Over the last couple of years, Sayan has directed her energy and efforts into Hay Tiger,
1:40.1	an ethical chocolate brand that functions as a social enterprise where each bar sold helps community development projects in cocoa farming communities in West Africa.
1:49.0	Siam is incredibly successful, yes, but she's also kind and oozes compassion with everything she does.
1:55.1	Here we discuss how she went from being in her mid-20s with nothing at all to her name,
1:59.0	to being in her late 30s with hundreds of employees and a couple of pretty powerful empires.
2:04.0	Here's Sayan.
2:07.0	Sayan, welcome to Shameless in Conversations.
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