Ty Haney: Outdoor Voices Founder and CEO

Second Life

Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Haney knows activewear. She was raised in Boulder, Colorado—a town known for its outdoor activities—and grew up running track and field. With a few courses in business and design under her belt paired with the desire to create a sporty uniform for recreational activity, Haney eventually became the CEO and founder of her own brand, Outdoor Voices. However, her journey was filled with challenges and missteps that she looks back on as lessons learned.

Originally broadcast on November 26th, 2018.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Hillary here with a quick reminder for you.
0:05.0	This week we're going to be re-broadcasting one of our absolute favorite episodes while we're working on our next round of truly inspiring interviews.
0:15.0	It's definitely worth a second listen or a first if you missed it the first time around and we'll be back with new episodes soon.
0:22.0	Now on to the show.
0:24.0	Hi everyone, I'm your host Hillary Kerr and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:40.0	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:50.0	Today I have an incredibly noteworthy guest for the pod, Tyler Haney, who is the CEO of Outdoor Voices, an active work company she founded in 2014 when she was only 25 years old.
1:05.0	Since starting the company she's grown it from a concept she worked on in her bedroom while enrolled at person school of design to a thriving company with over 120 employees,
1:17.0	56 million dollars in funding and a total of 10 stores by the end of 2018.
1:24.0	The awesome based entrepreneur actually started her career at a fashion startup incubator before launching her own company and she's going to tell us all about making that transition.
1:36.0	Now on Second Life it's Tyler Haney.
1:42.0	Alright Ty, so tell me what did you think you were going to be when you grew up and what did you want to study in school?
1:49.0	Early on let's see, I wanted to go to the Olympics for either running or riding horses.
1:56.0	And what was the second part of the question?
1:59.0	What did you study in school?
2:02.0	I studied business and design in a course called design and management.
2:08.0	So after high school you moved Boston for a year.
2:12.0	What did you do there and what made you decide to kind of almost essentially take a gap year?
2:18.0	Right, I had considered going to college for hurdles.
2:22.0	I loved playing all sports and running track and was good at hurdles, one of the events.
2:28.0	But had almost reached this point of burnout or definitely reached this point of burnout and ended up like before I signed on the dotted line to go to a school to run.
2:38.0	I said hold it, I want to take your kind of reset, understand what I really want to be and do in this life.
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