Tamara Mellon, Founder Of Jimmy Choo and Tamara Mellon

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Tamara Mellon is an entrepreneur, author, founder, and designer, best known for co-founding Jimmy Choo and founding her own brand, Tamara Mellon. At Jimmy Choo, she built one of the most recognizable luxury brands in the world—transforming what she saw as a gap in the accessories market into a multi-million dollar opportunity and cultural phenomenon. Since leaving the iconic brand, Tamara has written a memoir, In My Shoes, and launched a new business.Today, she runs her luxury shoe brand in a decidedly untraditional way, selling directly to consumers and skipping the fancy department stores. Today she’s talking to Sophia about brand-building, bankruptcy, starting over, and of course, that unforgettable Sex and the City moment that made Jimmy Choo a household name.

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0:00.0	What's up? It's Sophia Amruzzo. My voice is an octave lower than normal because I've been having way too many meetings and I'm exhausted so we're actually recording this from my
0:13.9	sofa so if you guys haven't listened to the latest podcast in the girl boss
0:18.9	radio network because we are a network there are four shows now in the girl
0:22.2	boss radio network Jen Gotch, the founder of Bando, has a really
0:26.3	great new show called Jen Gotch is OK sometimes. That's really a personal kind of diary of her life and living with mental illness and is really centered
0:37.4	around making all of us feel less alone and it's one of it's probably the funniest
0:40.9	podcast I've ever heard so go check it out.
0:43.7	Anywhere Podcasts are found in Apple Podcasts.
0:46.3	Success. It's such a complicated idea and yet for so long we've all collectively
0:56.8	subscribed to a single definition of the word, which was likely given to us by a white-haired
1:01.6	dude somewhere in a boardroom in the 1960s, and there's nothing wrong with that definition,
1:07.0	with the notion of climbing a corporate ladder with a singular focus.
1:10.0	But it's time to make space for a few other definitions for side hustles and well-being and
1:16.2	failing forward and for the idea that success is a wild ride, not the destination at the end of it. Join me for a journey into the lives of women who are redefining success
1:26.7	and paving the way for others with grit and grace.
1:29.0	I'm Sophia Am Russo, the founder and CEO of Girl Boss Media, and this is Girl Boss Radio.
1:40.0	Today we have an exciting guest.
1:42.0	Tamara Mellon is an entrepreneur, author, founder, and shoe designer
1:46.1	best known for co-founding Jimmy Chu and founding her own brand, Tamara Mellon.
1:51.1	In 1996 at the age of 27, she left her job as an accessories editor at
1:55.5	British Vogue to co-found a company with a then unknown East London
1:59.4	cobbler named Jimmy Chu.
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