When You Know You're Done But the Next Thing Hasn't Arrived
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Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future
26 min
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8 chapters
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Why did Tarkan decide to dismantle his $50 M fashion empire?
Back then I was just tired of all this fighting and I got divorced and then my dad died and everything came at the same time somehow. And then I just said okay I I don't want this anymore. I had almost two thousand employees direct and indirect. Uh um and then finally when I did it I moved to Bali and I thought like okay I wanna start over that was too much and then I felt like in a prison. If I don't enjoy something then I just stop. The hardest thing is you are in the void. You will feel so lost but you have to keep going.
Today with me is Tarkin Solar from Can't Stop Me Consulting. And Tarkin and I we're gonna talk about something that is a topic that I am personally also exploring, and that is what do you do when you don't want to do it anymore and you just stop? Tarka, was it a midlife crisis? Was it a decision? What was it? Because you took it all and you flushed it down the toilet. What happened?
This back then I was just tired of all this fighting, you know, like when when you build a company, all this political bullshit. I was just tired, all this discussion, and then I get divorced and then my dad died and everything came at the same time somehow. And then I just said, Okay, I I don't want this anymore. But it were Things already coming, you know. Like I wanted to close Germany and move completely to my Hong Kong. Although I had an office in Hong Kong, a factory in China, wanted to move completely there. Nobody in Germany wanted that, of course. And then at some point I just said, okay, I'm going to close that. It was a really crazy process because in fact You think uh in seasons and then you have agents, they sold already next season.
So it took almost one and a half years to I had almost two thousand employees direct and indirect, so to cancel contracts, la la la, dissolve all all of that. Um and then finally when I did it, I moved to Bali and I thought like okay, I wanna start n over I didn't know anything about fashion. I pack my back, go to the high street with eighteen and try to sell. I so I take most decisions very fast and clear and then somehow at some point it turns out to be right.
You are in fashion, you are A manufacturing in China, you have contracts all over the world, you're running a multimillion dollar company, it's a family business. What brought you to this point of saying, I'm in prison? what am I doing this for? Why am I doing this? And or or was it that you had no joy or was it like everything all at once?
It was like everything at once. Like I I had still my joy, but it seems the people around me all of the sudden they they had only their own life in focus and the company was not in in in focus anymore and all these things we did together was also evaporating and also the the whole industry changed and now with e when the e-commerce thing hit it changed everything so customers like HM or CNA, you know, like very solid customers become because uh unpredictable because in fashion you always can find a problem on any garment, right?
How did personal crises (divorce, father’s death) push him toward quitting?
Industry going a different way was not the joy anymore because I did it for so long. I saw all the great times. Most of the time we had fun, right? And And then that plus the environment plus probably my family situation so I said that was too much and then I felt like in a prison and that's what not what I wanted to do anymore. Mm-hmm.
How did you find the courage to say, Screw this all, I'm gonna shut it down? Because so many people depend on it. Your family is depending on it.
I have no idea. I just said I don't know even if if it was right or wrong, right? So because I I lost also millions in that process. I couldn't do this anymore. And I lose the energy, the joy for something, then I can't do it. Like it's it's there is very different entrepreneurs. Everyone follows wants to follow like Alex Sarmozzi or Gary B or Or Stephen Bartlett. So that's why for me, if I don't enjoy something, then I just stop. Screw that shit, so I'm out, right?
How did you manage the fallout? There has to have been a fallout. Like people probably were really angry with you.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Tarkan decide to dismantle his $50 M fashion empire?
0:00–4:03
2
How did personal crises (divorce, father’s death) push him toward quitting?
4:03–6:34
3
What was the process of shutting down 2,000 employees and contracts like?
6:34–9:19
4
How did moving to Bali and the 5 AM Club audiobook change his mindset?
9:19–12:49
5
What role does Sufism play in helping him cope with the ‘void’ after quitting?
12:49–15:38
6
How does he combine daily self‑development (meditation, learning) with spiritual practice?
15:38–18:53
7
What is his emerging vision for impacting 500 million people and building a new business?
18:53–22:31
8
What advice does Tarkan give to founders stuck in a void or unfinished transformation?
22:31–26:18