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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
So yeah, we really appreciated that.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
We were quite worried about it.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
But yeah, everyone was really understanding.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
But it was really, the hardest part for me was letting people down.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Because like, you've got shareholders.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
you have family, like my partner, his family, like he had put money into it.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
My family, that crowdsource funding campaign was literally me calling my community, being like, I've got this, believe in me.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And then I didn't.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And I lost, like, I know I didn't, but it feels like it, that, yeah, their money in a way, which is, and I know one of the biggest reasons
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Like I was impacted so much, but these are people that I asked to believe in me.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Oh, yeah.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
So that was, yeah, the hardest part.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Yeah, I was, we were really scared.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Amy was really scared.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
I was really scared a bit differently.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
So a lot of the bigger shareholders and people that invested more was from Amy's network.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And then a lot of like the customers and community were my network.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
But also I was the one that was front facing as the face of the brand.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
So it was, I was more worried about the like,
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
um impact from our customers and the response on social media yeah um and so I was just blown away though by the response I was so scared and as soon as we put it out there and I like you said earlier it's which thank you but it about like how transparent we've been I just never felt that there was another way like I just felt we had built this if not