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9 to 5ish with theSkimm

Tyler Haney, Founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices: “All I wanted was comfortable clothes to sweat in.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Haney is the CEO and founder of Outdoor Voices. Today, you know OV as one of your favorite brands to wear to the gym...or to walk your dog around the block. Tyler got the idea for her company when she was on a jog. Since then, she’s grown it into a multi-million dollar national brand. And this week, Tyler is our guest on the couch. She talks to us about turning an investor's no into a yes, learning from mentors, and hiring passionate people. Leggings, on.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Carly Zagan.

0:03.7

And I'm Danielle Weisberg, and we're the co-founders of The Skim.

0:07.6

Welcome to our podcast, Skimmed From the Couch.

0:10.4

On every episode we invite smart, inspiring successful women to chat candidly about

0:15.1

what it takes to get to the top and then what it's like when you actually get there.

0:18.7

So this is a podcast about the real stuff, the crappy days, the bad advice, the first big career win, and the people

0:24.8

who are there for the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We started the skim from a couch,

0:29.8

and we have only one rule on this one, no BS. So please join us in welcoming

0:35.5

Tyler Haney to the couch. Tyler is the CEO and founder of outdoor voices. I love

0:41.8

the leggings. You know it as one of your favorite brands to wear to the gym or to just go for a walk.

0:47.6

Tyler grew up in Colorado and got the idea for her company while on a run. That was back in 2013. We'll get back to that. But since

0:55.9

then she's grown outdoor voices to a multimillion dollar national brand.

0:59.7

Tyler, welcome to the couch. Thank you for having me.

1:02.1

So we are big fans of what you've

1:05.1

built and actually remember I think it was in 2013. We have a mutual friend and

1:10.6

someone dropped off some leggings for us and I still wear them all the time and I get the most compliments on them.

1:16.0

They're also my travel leggings for airport walking down the terminal.

1:21.0

I guess I sit in them which is maybe not on the ground.

1:24.0

They're really good eye-lagging.

1:26.0

Doing things or not doing things.

1:27.0

Yes.

1:28.0

But I want to talk about what has always struck me about your story and I think we've been to a lot of the same events and know a lot of people in common in the industry is we actually had a very similar beginning where a lot of people telling us both don't do this. This isn't a good idea and we both struggled to raise

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