Shawn Nelson

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664 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Feb 2025

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The Conscious Capitalists · How Shawn Nelson Built LoveSac by Thinking Differently · 3 Feb 2025 podcast

And she said, look,

The way I see it, you only have two options.

You can quit or keep going.

And I know that sounds really simple, but we face that challenge every day.

You all face that challenge with this podcast.

You all face that challenge with your day jobs.

You face that challenge at Conscious Capitalism, right?

You keep pushing the boulder or you don't.

And so I chose to keep going.

And I lived through that period and it took a number of years to sort of recover from that as a business, as a person.

I learned a lot.

I mean, you learn the most about business through realms like that.

And I think in some ways I know more than people who've never been through something like that because you see how contracts really work.

You see how leases really work.

You see what happens.

you know, when they all come out of the drawer and they're all, they're all put, you know, to the test.

And so fast forward, having learned, having eaten a lot of humble pie and having learned a lot of tough lessons, we had a chance to sort of, again, after recovering, rebirth the company around 20, let's call it 2015 as I was seeing Warby Parker, Casper, all these direct consumer brands really flying high, both in valuation and apparently in

you know, let's just say their ability to grow a brand through that business model.

And we pivoted Love Sack to that business model, even though we weren't ever exactly like a digitally native brand that way around these couches.

And there was a whole pivot there we could unpack, but we then got a chance to really roll the thing out and

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