Noura Sakkijha, co-founder and CEO, Mejuri: "The beginning was really hard. I decided to go into therapy at that point because it was really intense.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Noura Sakkijha is the co-founder and CEO of Mejuri, the buzzy jewelry company that sells affordable, quality pieces directly online. While Noura’s the third generation in her family to go into the industry, she had to navigate brand new challenges on her own. This week, Noura told us about the struggles she faced in the beginning…and how she learned self care was important for her health and the health of the business. In this episode, Noura shares how she’s learned to separate her personal life and her work life (14:28), why therapy has helped her get through the most challenging parts of being a CEO (10:11), and how she’s built her company culture to prioritize honest feedback (20:58).

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0:00.0	It takes it all on you and so the beginning was really hard and I decided to go into
0:11.9	therapy at that point because it was really intense in terms of how are we going to scale this business.
0:17.0	We barely have any funding, we barely have any people, etc.
0:20.0	I think, you know, as a piece of advice for anyone who's going through this is find an outlet that is helpful for you for me it was therapy
0:30.6	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch. This podcast is where we go deep on
0:36.2	career advice from women who have lived it. From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:40.8	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard
0:45.7	feedback.
0:46.7	We started the skim from a couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it began
0:51.4	on a couch. Hey everyone, it's Carly.
0:54.0	Today,
0:58.0	Nora Sakisha joins me on Skim From the Couch.
1:04.0	She is the co-founder and CEO of Msjorie, a direct to consumer jewelry brand
1:09.0	that is changing the game by getting rid of traditional markups
1:12.0	and by positioning jewelry as an everyday
1:14.3	luxury. I like the sound of that. And as we'll get into, jewelry runs in Nora's
1:19.2	blood. She is the third generation of her family to go into the business.
1:22.8	Nora, thank you so much for coming on the show.
1:25.0	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
1:27.0	Thank you for having me.
1:28.0	I'm so excited.
1:29.4	I'm so excited.
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