S8: Empowering Women of Colour Through Product Innovation with Ade Hassan MBE, Founder of Nubian Skin
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From dreaming of quitting the finance rat race, to Beyonce wearing her products, Ade Hassan has built a brilliant brand and is riding the entrepreneurial rollercoaster.
Filled with highs, lows and crucial lessons she has learnt along the way, in this episode Holly and Ade cover everything from manufacturing and product development to the imposter syndrome and finance.
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| 0:00.0 | My guess this week is Ade Hassan, the incredible founder of Nubian skin, from dreaming up leaving her job in finance, |
| 0:08.1 | to then having Beyoncé's stylist calling up to order her products, a day is truly riding the entrepreneurial roller coaster. |
| 0:16.8 | And it's rare in this day and age that a truly new and innovative product is bought to the market but that is exactly what a day did |
| 0:25.6 | with her brand Nubian skin which makes underwear in dark tones for women of color and |
| 0:31.4 | I absolutely loved speaking to this brilliant driven and very focused |
| 0:36.6 | women. I couldn't actually believe when researching her that nude-colored underwear only existed in peachy pink when she first had the idea back in 2011. |
| 0:48.8 | And I truly believe that a day is just at the very start of her journey despite having seen so much success already with a |
| 0:56.3 | vision and drive-like curs I believe the skies the limit. I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to conversations of inspiration. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm the founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Coe and I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses. |
| 1:15.8 | I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life, |
| 1:21.6 | and my dream is to help everybody start theirs. |
| 1:25.0 | So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses, |
| 1:27.8 | acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me |
| 1:32.1 | and ask them to share theirs. |
| 1:34.0 | With thanks to our sponsor, NatWest, who have helped bring this free podcast to life. |
| 1:39.0 | Here are my conversations of inspiration. |
| 1:42.0 | Bow your head and Bow your eyelids close on down where we're going you won't need to bring your frown. |
| 1:50.0 | You will find that all you... |
| 1:52.0 | Hello Ade, so wonderful to meet you. You have been on my list of inspiring female founders to interview for such a long time. |
| 2:01.0 | And I don't know if you know this, but every March at the Holly and Co workshop that's my physical shop in West London |
| 2:07.5 | We celebrate female founders month and we create these rosettes with all the most inspiring female faces on it and you've been on our wall now for three years running. |
| 2:18.6 | Oh wow! |
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