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Sian Murray

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
447 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

So if I do it again, we'll find out.

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

It's slogs.

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

But it was just like, I know it will always be hard, but it just felt we were always fighting this huge battle.

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

And we constantly thought, oh, this is it.

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

This is like, this is going to be finally like, this is what's going to change things.

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

This will be our big break.

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

I have a really good example.

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

So we were told by our PR agency early on that we were going to be on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens.

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

And we were like, holy crap, that's massive.

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

And so we were like, okay, well, we need to get some more stock.

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

We need to do this, yada, yada.

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

So yeah, we invested in more inventory.

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

We made sure we were prepped.

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

And then that came out and it was one of our bottles in like a cleaning caddy.

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

So you could only see...

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

the colour at the top and the trigger, no logo, no reference to us at all.

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

Like it was nothing.

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

And it had been built up as this like huge cover piece.

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

We were like trying to figure out what, anyway, and that constantly happened.

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

I just think we would get really excited by things and invest in it.