📩Newsletter & 🎙Podcast: Episode 166 一百六十六 (Bonus Content)
Series 7: Episode 166: The Global Homepreneur Summit: Meet the Fantastic 10 Part I
Greetings Rare Ones,🏴
Welcome to the Rare Birds Podcast and Newsletter. Let’s embark upon another week of great conversation. Before we begin, thanks as always for reading my weekly mental mosaic, all curated with you in mind. ✍️ Time waits for no one, we should always endeavour to use it wisely!
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We commence our deep dive with the Fantastic 10! These are 10 women from the Southern Indian state of Goa who define themselves as side hustlers, homepreneurs and early stage startup entrepreneurs building businesses’ from the ground up. We begin this first week with the first three of the coterie:
Shilpa Kulkarni Founder of Shilpkala
Shraddha Shirgaonker Founder of the Art & Aroma Kitchen
Priyanka Navelkar Founder of Smiles of Miles
Shilpa Kulkarni is an MBA graduate and alumni of the 10,0000 women entrepreneurs certified program from Goldman Sachs. She started her business with an exhibition during the Diwali festival. Her creations were a hit, they sold out, from there she recognised an opportunity and so began Shilpkala! Shilpa’s creations are bespoke, which means each design comes to life once. She has a full time job and builds her business on the side. She shared with me that she manages her life like a student would with a timetable. She is ruthless about time management and gets it all done!
Shraddha Shirgaonker is the mother of twins and former banker, who had a career both at home and in the UAE. She believes "Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness" and that "Nothing awakens reminiscence like an Aroma.” Her soaps are made with goat milk ( I had no idea this was possible) and includes no parabens, SLS or sulfates. In addition to that her candles are hand-made, hand-poured and hand-crafted by me. She shared with me that she is an artist playing with a combination of possibilities!
Priyanka Navelkar holds a BCom degree and has 14 years of experience in multiple sectors including: telecommunications, e-commerce and and pharmaceuticals. She currently works as a Human Resource Manager in a pharmaceutical company. She defines herself as a startup entrepreneur. Like Shilpa she works by day and builds by night, with a timetable that keeps her focussed and on task. Her business creates customized hand-made gift packaging, which she say spreads smiles for miles. She shared with me that an entrepreneur should never lose faith in themselves, always remember why you started!
In each conversation you will learn:
The story behind the business
The Opportunity Spotted
The Marketing Channels
The Business Strategy
The Customer Base
The Foundations for Success
Challenges & How They Overcame Them
Unique Industry Features
Tools-Technical & Otherwise Use to Manage & Grow Their Business
Lessons Learned
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