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Sian Murray

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
447 total appearances

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KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And the amount of times I said to my partner, like, all right, like, this is it.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

Come on, Patti.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And I was like, you know, after this โ€“ because we never paid ourselves much.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

It was always a really hard slog.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And I was like, after this, like, we'll be able to pay ourselves X, Y, Z. Like, it'll be so different.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And it just never eventuated.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And, yeah, I just think โ€“ and it's part of what we spoke about earlier about โ€“

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

like it had not been a failure and the really positive response that we did get.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

But I was just scared of losing everything that I'd built and also the response, the reaction from everybody else.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

I remember when I, we did decide to close up my, and I kept saying, well, like what a waste, like what a waste of six years, what a waste of money, what a waste of all these, like trust this community.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

Like when we shut down our Instagram account, I was like, oh my God,

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

I know.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

I saw that post when you spoke about that.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And I was just sitting in my living room like, damn.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

But my dad said he was like, think of it as like the most amazing university degree ever.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

Like you would have spent tens and thousands of dollars on that.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And a whole lot of time.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

And a whole lot of time.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

See Pleasant State as that.

KICPod
How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray

This was like very early on.