Sophia Amoruso: Intuition, Grit, & Working with What You Have

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sophia Amoruso is a creative visionary, pioneering entrepreneur, and fashion doyenne. As founder of Nasty Gal, she has forged an unprecedented path in building a brand in the teenage years of the Internet. Amoruso released the paperback edition of her New York Times 18-week best-seller #GIRLBOSS in 2015. It was recently announced that Amoruso has teamed up with Charlize Theron to Executive Produce the #GIRLBOSS comedy series on Netflix. Amoruso recently launched her first podcast, #GIRLBOSS Radio, in partnership with Slate and Panoply. On October 4th, 2016, Amoruso will release her second book, NASTY GALAXY. It will be part scrapbook and part inspo-journey, with moments of frivolity scattered throughout.

In today’s episode,

* Sophia and I talk about the hustle, grit, creativity and courage it takes to start from nothing. She says: There’s no right way. There’s what you have and what you do with you have. And that’s the right way.
* Learning by doing - there is a muscle memory that you develop that you cannot get from books or other means
* The power of storytelling. There is a ripple effect that comes from telling our stories and it’s impact.

and much much more.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, how's it going?
0:06.0	I am Chase Jarvis, and I want to welcome you to my show called the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live.
0:12.0	This, my friends, is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders with the goal of doing two things.
0:20.0	One, with the goal of doing two things. One, with the goal of doing two things.
0:21.8	How about two goals? One goal is to have a really good time. And another goal is to add a serious
0:27.7	amount of value by extracting actionable insights from these big brains, these smart, talented
0:33.9	people that I host on the show to help you live your dreams in career and hobby
0:38.2	and in life.
0:39.7	My guest today is Sophia Amaruso.
0:43.7	Sophia is known in many circles as Nasty Gal because she is the founder and CEO of said brand Nasty
0:53.2	Gal, which she started by, I think she started like out of our
0:57.6	basement or something like that, selling curated vintage things that she found IRL in real
1:04.8	life in stores, and then she would put them online and sell them on eBay. And she turned that
1:10.7	concept into a XXX, X, X, X, million, something like that.
1:16.1	I think it's 100 plus million in revenue business.
1:19.8	She is, I would consider her just a hustler, a hard worker, an independent thinker. She turned, again, this simple idea into
1:30.1	a massive enterprise. And not only is it an enterprise in the business sense, but it's, I would,
1:36.4	it's sort of like, it's a, gosh, it's a franchise, really. She has Girl Boss Radio, which is a podcast.
1:42.5	It is always highly ranked on iTunes. And she's got a Netflix
1:49.6	series named after her. I mean, it's literally her life in a Netflix series with all kinds of big time
1:57.9	directors and actors and whatnot. So, you know, aside from sort of checking the Hollywood boxes, there is so much grit and
2:05.5	simplicity and sort of core humanity in Sophia.
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