Ep 121: Interior Designer Turned Startup Founder Nicole Gibbons on Launching Clare
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair is Nicole Gibbons, the CEO and Founder of Clare. Nicole is an entrepreneur, interior designer, blogger, and on-air personality best known for her fashion-forward take on personal style expressed through the home.
Clare is essentially paint shopping simplified. Nicole has created an easier way to paint a space you love with premium paint, designer-curated colors, and the best painting supplies—all delivered to your door.
Nicole has been featured in top media outlets such as HGTV, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America and more. She appeared on the Emmy Award-winning Home Made Simple on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, for three seasons as a designer helping deserving families re-imagine their living spaces.
On today’s episode, we will get into what inspired her to pivot and how she got herself prepared to launch, secure funding, and now scale.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:08.2 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm your host,hay so let's get started. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey hey guys welcome back to the show so I hope that all of your years are winding down nicely. You know, I know it's December and we're all tempted to start making plans for 2019 as if 2018 is already over, right? But I encourage you, and this is what I'm doing myself, |
| 0:35.5 | to still make this year the best it can be, |
| 0:38.0 | still finish strong, okay? |
| 0:40.0 | It ain't over yet, and whatever that thing is that you said you were going to do that you |
| 0:45.9 | didn't get around to start doing it this month just work on it a little bit at a time |
| 0:51.5 | and let's go into 2019 with a routine rather than |
| 0:56.1 | putting all this pressure on ourselves to start off strong and do everything |
| 0:59.9 | right on January 1st, January 2nd. |
| 1:02.5 | Listen, I want January 1st and 2nd |
| 1:05.0 | to feel relaxed for you, not like a bunch of pressure. |
| 1:08.2 | So start doing it today, finish strong, all right? |
| 1:11.6 | Okay, so let's get into the show. |
| 1:13.3 | Today and the guest chair is Nicole Gibbons. |
| 1:16.4 | She is the CEO and founder of Claire. |
| 1:19.7 | Nicole is an entrepreneur. |
| 1:21.5 | She's an interior designer, blogger, and on-air personality best known for her fashion forward |
| 1:26.8 | take on personal style expressed through the home. |
| 1:30.6 | This is actually where I first came across Nicole. |
| 1:33.0 | I used to follow her blog and then later her social media profiles as I'm someone who I like to |
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