“I used to say to my team all the time, come to me with solutions, don't come to me with problems. And someone actually asked me to stop saying that because they won't always have the whole solution, but they don't want to be shut down."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Taryn Williams on how to scale a start-up in different ways, the insane value of intrepreneurship, and curing workaholism.

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Taryn is a multi-award winning Founder and CEO, who, over the course of the last 2 decades, has earned a reputation as one of Australia’s most prolific entrepreneurs at the intersection of talent, media, and technology.

Her latest project is #Gifted, a Shopify plug-in enabling brands to manage their influencer contra gifting at scale, and is already being used by some of the biggest brands around the world.

A former model, at just 21 Taryn founded WINK Models, which grew to become one of Australia's most successful modelling agencies. In 2016 she launched a marketplace platform called The Right Fit, which has over 17,000 talent and 11,000 clients making thousands of bookings a month across APAC. Taryn sold it just a few months ago.

She is also a board member, influencer and media commentator and has won numerous business awards, including being named in B&T’s Women in Media Power List for the third consecutive year.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ Being fully prepared for investor conversations when raising capital

✅ How to be an intrepreneur by leading with innovation

✅ Finding balance as a recovering workaholic, and

✅ Controlling your personal brand.

Thanks to Sam Dybac and her team at The PR Hub for introducing us to Taryn.

Connecting with Taryn Williams

You can connect with Taryn via LinkedIn.

Books and resources

The hard thing about hard things - by Ben Horowitz

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