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Conor Moules

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843 total appearances

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The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

this is it.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I'm done with school.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Like I was never great with school, to be honest with you.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Um, and you go home and you have that conversation around the table like this, like I'm kind of done and broke my mom's heart naturally.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Um, and she was like, well, you need an apprenticeship.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

And her best friend was, I'm not even sure, the area manager at the time for Peter Mark in Leinster.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Had you any desire or a growl or?

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I had a desire to leave school and I would have done an apprenticeship for just about anything.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

She didn't really care.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

i didn't really care i thought interesting and like you could be on a building site breaking your back laboring all day which i'd done a good bit of in my preteens okay so i thought let's give this a spin okay because that would have been the logical kind of natural route you're kind of going oh yeah i'll get a carpenter or plumber so you already tried it with that and you're like what would be the better alternative here

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

yeah like and i think not i enjoyed doing those jobs and like i think like a lot of entrepreneurs i've done an awful lot of different jobs and different things you're constantly like trying to earn money um especially if you come from a background where like money isn't really prevalent so yeah i think the peter mark side of it kind of

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

It seemed like a bit of crap, to be honest.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Do you know what I mean?

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Yeah, so colourist.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Looking back on it, it was just mad interesting.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

You're getting to meet people all different walks of life.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

You're getting to meet people.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

When you think about people coming in, probably not having the best day, generally everyone left having a great day, if that makes sense.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

hard work so you're on your feet it's very demanding and i just found getting to talk to people all day every day like just past today so fast you're a people person though are you i like to think so yeah i'm pretty people would say i've gifted a gab i guess so you get you get energy from being around people in chat yeah and i think when you're especially as you kind of progress on and maybe you're like doing color on the floor and you're getting to know people

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

It's kind of when you fall in love with the industry a little bit, because what you actually realize is, right, I'm a hairdresser, but I'm also like a therapist here.