Sarah Fiszel
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104 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Sarah Fiszel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was embarrassed when we had a day in September when it was hot and I was launching a brand of cashmere socks and no one knew what it was and they were like, I'm not buying it. And so I kind of used to shield them from it, I think. And I'd be like, oh, we did well. Or I would think of something to protect, I think, myself.
And then I sort of got comfortable with the fact that I'm not really teaching my kids anything. And I say, great, everything's great. And so seeing like, no, we didn't have a good day today or
And I think it's important for the team too. We've got a really good team and we spent the time over developing the product to build a team. So I think unfortunately, like monetary success,
is still a success because we have a whole team and they see the numbers and they want to know if we're doing well and when we have a great day i mean we're on the wall street journal on thursday we have so many orders and that pumps them up and i said to them you know post it on your instagrams like this is your victory as much as it's mine like you've worked all this it's great that it's my name and i'm the founder and great putting and i i really love all that but like these are amazing hard-working people into it and it's their job so they want to know it's like right like so if i continue
a business that's not bringing in revenue, I would feel uncomfortable.
For sure. Not to be pushing and pushing and pushing.
He wore a black tie. So he's my co-founder and business partner. He's the CEO of the company. Oh, I didn't realize that. Yes. And so he was sort of there all along. And then I think when he realized that, you know, we were selling so many with the handmade product, he said, you know, are you really serious about this? Like, do you want to work?
You know, we really took the time to sort of figure it out and not just sort of have one thing flow into the other. And I said, no, I'm really serious as I believe. And he said, I've started a bunch of businesses. He's been in hospitality and he's invested in companies. He said, you have a unique product. It's going to be well-made, right? It's a new category.
He's like, you should try to do this, you know, and I can help you do it. And so he went to business school and he's extremely bright. And so he's been an amazing support in terms of like developing the business, but I'm still every single call. I don't want to be the creator that has no idea what's going on in the business.
But I think that having a co-founders is like an amazing support in starting a business, whether it's male, female or whatever, but it's just so happens. I mean, he did wake me up once in the middle of the night and sort of nudged me. We don't live together, but we were together when we don't have our kids. And he nudged me in the middle of the night and he said, Sarah, Sarah, wake up.
Or he calls me Sizzle. That's his nickname. Sarah Fizzell. I don't know. Oh, cute. Have you ever made shoes before? And I was like, what?
Like, have you ever made a shoe before?
I said, no, go back to sleep and don't wake me up anymore. Right, exactly. You know? And so I think there was that moment of like, yeah. But he liked to say, like, he felt like my style. was unique and different that he, you know, he doesn't have that creativity, but he's, you know, sort of betting on my, you know, to my style and how my work ethic and how we work together.
So it's been an amazing thing. My parents worked together when I was growing up.
And I worked for my father. I worked for my father for around 10 or 15 years and we sold real estate together. So I think for me, it's just a very natural fit. I think the hardest thing is when you live with someone, you share a life with someone, whatever it may be that, you know, it's really hard to then like reset and be in the relationship mode again. And I think that's what we've,
sort of navigated in the course since we've launched the company. And I also think we spent the time, since it is my sort of second time around in a relationship, I said, you know, I was very young when I met my ex and he's wonderful and he's a great friend and we raise our kids together. So I feel very blessed, but I wanted to take the time in this new relationship. I said,
whoever I date and marry, I want to go into therapy pretty soon.
And I think I went on a couple of dates when I got to work and I remember saying it on each date. And I kind of was like, I'm just going to be myself because at this age, I can't hide that I have four kids. I can't, you know, am who I am a little bit, but I'm always trying to grow and evolve. And I said, I would like it because I think you have to learn another person.
How can you get along with someone if you don't know what their triggers are? You don't know, right? You don't know what triggers them, what upsets them, how they're, right? And so we kind of spent the time getting to know each other very early in our relationship. It can only help though.
It's like, why? It could be like, why do you always get quiet when I ask questions? how I look, I don't know, making something up, right? And like you could fight about it for the next 15 years or you could like kind of talk it out and be like, what is it? When I say, do I look? And he would be like, oh, like my mother used to always say, whatever.
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