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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Britney Saunders and welcome to Big Business, the

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Speaker 1: place where business is far from boring. And today I'm

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Speaker 1: recording on gaddigul Land. Now, I somehow managed to build

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Speaker 1: an empire from the garage underneath my house and I'm

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Speaker 1: here to share it all with you, from the wins,

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Speaker 1: the mistakes, the challenging times and the funny moments in between. So,

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Speaker 1: whether you're in business already, perhaps you're not in the

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Speaker 1: game at all, Maybe you're just looking for some inspo,

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Speaker 1: or you simply just want to hear the tea, this

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Speaker 1: is the podcast for you. Coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by the youngest guest that I have ever

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Speaker 1: I'm welcoming to the pod. Sophia aka glitter Girl. This

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Speaker 1: is a young entrepreneur. She's the age of seventeen right now,

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Speaker 1: but she started her business at just ten years old

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Speaker 1: and I'm absolutely amazed by her story. When I was

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Speaker 1: chatting with her, I actually felt like I was chat

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Speaker 1: to younger me. She is so on the ball, she

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Speaker 1: absolutely gets it. She's just finished year twelve and throughout

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Speaker 1: her entire high school journey she has built a very

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Speaker 1: very successful business all on her own, with the support

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Speaker 1: of her parents. We're going to be chatting all things

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Speaker 1: building a business from the age of ten, which I

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Speaker 1: know sounds absolutely crazy, but she has done it, what

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Speaker 1: it was like to juggle going to school and building

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Speaker 1: an online store, and what her plans are for the future. Sophia,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Big Business. Thank you, otherwise known as glitter Girl. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you on the pod. I

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Speaker 1: feel like your story is very impressive and I want

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Speaker 1: to hear all about it. So can you tell us

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Speaker 1: a little bit about Glidder Girl? Who is glitter Girl?

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Speaker 1: What is glidd Girl? And how on earth did you

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Speaker 1: start this business at the age of was it ten?

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Speaker 2: Y ten?

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Speaker 1: And you started your business when you were ten? Tell

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Speaker 3: Okay, So, Glita Girl, I started it when I was ten,

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Speaker 3: and I started it because I've always loved glitter. I've

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Speaker 3: always loved sparkles. But I found out that glitter actually

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Speaker 3: And when I found that out, I was like, I

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Speaker 3: don't want animals to be harmed by something that I

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Speaker 3: and I was like, I have this business idea. I

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Speaker 3: want to make eco friendly glitter and I want to

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Speaker 2: The mom and dad were.

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Speaker 1: Like, okay, like and you're ten years old, yeah, saying this, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and how did you get this idea?

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Speaker 2: Though? Like where did it come from?

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Speaker 1: I just it just came to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow.

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Speaker 1: Was it fate?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: So it was fake?

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Speaker 3: And mom and dad just thought it was a little

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Speaker 2: But I kept going to them with ideas.

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Speaker 3: I made a notebook, had a little fluffer unicorn notebook,

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Speaker 3: the glitters, and just kept going. And then mom and

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Speaker 2: It's not just a little dream. I really know how

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Speaker 3: So they got me some glitter and I started selling

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Speaker 2: I would get these little pots. I don't even know

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Speaker 3: Yep, somewhere online, and I'd sell them to my friends

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Speaker 3: for twenty cents each.

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Speaker 3: I'd go to school each day with my little unicorn

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Speaker 2: I'd take their money, and then the next day I

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Speaker 1: Wow, So was this like the glitter? Was it just

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Speaker 1: And that's the idea of where your business was born. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: What east teachers say? Now, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen them around around.

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Speaker 3: I'm probably very surprised that because you're going Speaking of school,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulation, thank you. How are you feeling? I mean,

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Speaker 1: back to you finishing school, yeah, and what your plans

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Speaker 1: I'm actually going to make this a proper website and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So after school, obviously I couldn't sell my products anymore.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, so I'm a dad, Like my

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Speaker 3: So my dad had made a website before, and he

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Speaker 2: No, we started on woo commerce.

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Speaker 1: Do you recommend We're on Shopify now?

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Speaker 1: Shopify all the way. I've never tried another one, but

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So Dad set up a little website and they

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Speaker 3: were like, all right, that's good. That'll stop me from

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Speaker 2: They didn't think anything would happen.

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Speaker 1: They thought, yeah, we're just going to build this website and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And then we just started getting orders. People

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Speaker 3: Instagram because I was only ten, I didn't really have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so you launched it online. You were shipping

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Speaker 1: How did you feel at such a young age that

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Speaker 3: I don't think I really understood what was happening. I

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Speaker 3: I thought that was just kind of what happened. I'd

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Speaker 2: No one else my age is doing things like this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Was there a moment where you kind of realized, hang

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we started actually getting more than you know,

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Speaker 1: How important would you say that that is? When someone

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they never pursue it because it just feels like

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Speaker 2: So important? I mean I could have just kept it

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Speaker 3: Know, putting a little bit of effort to it and

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Speaker 3: you know, filming a few videos, but if you keep

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Speaker 3: being consistent will eventually pay off.

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Speaker 2: And it has now absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was there a moment for you or a time

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Speaker 1: start to take off? And what was it that you

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Speaker 1: were doing that kind of saw it go from like

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Speaker 1: a hobby with a few orders to like I guess,

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Speaker 3: In I think it was twenty twenty two, I was

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Speaker 3: nominated for this award with a Gold Coast bulletin. It

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Speaker 3: winning the Young Women of the Year Award. Yes, so exciting.

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Speaker 3: It was my first time ever going to an event.

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Speaker 3: I'm literally just playing with glitter, we did. I jumped

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Speaker 3: It was literally just a day in my life video,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, everything's just grown.

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Speaker 3: We have my best friend Maddie works for us, and

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Speaker 3: we're gonna film this video of this new product. Like well,

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Speaker 1: That's so nice. We've got your mum in the studio today.

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Speaker 3: I mean, mom and Dad had to put a lot

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Speaker 1: I love that you can see like your friends and

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Speaker 2: My attendance was never the best?

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Speaker 3: I went enough days to graduate, get all my work done,

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Speaker 3: I'd be at the back writing emails and telling mom.

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Speaker 2: What I need her to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm not in schools now.

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Speaker 1: See, when I went to school, we didn't have laptops

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Speaker 3: Well it was very helpful having my laptop because I

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Speaker 3: No one else was really doing it. My friends would

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the actual business studies class was a bit better

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Speaker 3: In Yeah, because so many of my friends did the

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Speaker 3: Like it never really taught them how to find a product,

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Speaker 3: of being a teacher and being a doctor and a nurse.

449
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Speaker 3: Running a business or being an entrepreneur was never really

450
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Speaker 3: spoken about or change.

451
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Speaker 1: Twenty Yeah life, you would think it would be, yeah,

452
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Speaker 1: because it definitely wasn't when I was young, Like you

453
00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,520
Speaker 1: would go to the careers advisor and they'd say, do

454
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Speaker 1: you want to join the army or do you want

455
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Speaker 1: to be school. I nearly signed to be in the

456
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Speaker 1: Army reserve because I didn't know what I would wanted

457
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Speaker 1: to do. So there's fifteen year old meet the careers

458
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Speaker 1: day going, Yeah, I think I am going to go

459
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Speaker 1: into the Army reserves producer.

460
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Speaker 4: Here did they because I did business studies in school

461
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Speaker 4: and we're talking long like fifteen years ago now, yeah,

462
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Speaker 4: did they have like any information like social media and

463
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Speaker 4: have business use? That's so crazy.

464
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Speaker 1: You need to get into school the curriculum.

465
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my education department, we need.

466
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Speaker 1: To business ventures. We're going into the schooling system.

467
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

468
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Speaker 4: We had to write a business plan.

469
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Speaker 1: I remember doing that as well. Yeah, but it was

470
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Speaker 1: just like writing what the name.

471
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Speaker 4: Is and yeah, I like fake fake financials for it,

472
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Speaker 4: and I was like this is stupid, so real.

473
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, we for my diploma, we'd get we

474
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 3: got this fake business and we'd have to do everything

475
00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,280
Speaker 3: based off of that. But none of it was so

476
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,760
Speaker 3: it was hard to understand, like how you can relate

477
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Speaker 3: it to your business because it's all just made up.

478
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Speaker 4: Do you think it was more of a determined for

479
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Speaker 4: people to start a business than actually be.

480
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Speaker 3: Excited to Yes, it made it seem so boring. All

481
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Speaker 3: my friends were like, how do you how do you

482
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Speaker 3: do it?

483
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Speaker 2: How do you do it? Like do you just sit

484
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Speaker 2: and do numbers all day?

485
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Speaker 1: I was like no, not at all we need that,

486
00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,240
Speaker 1: but that for someone else, that for dad and age

487
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:28,679
Speaker 1: and we'll do all the fun. So, yeah, I was

488
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Speaker 1: stalking your website actually yeah the other day and I

489
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Speaker 1: saw on your website that you have like a Is

490
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Speaker 1: it like a business course for young yes, young teens.

491
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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about that.

492
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Speaker 2: So about six months ago we released something.

493
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Speaker 3: It's called the Sparkle Academy, and it's just a very

494
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Speaker 3: simplified business course for young people. Because I get the

495
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,679
Speaker 3: DM every day saying how do I start a business?

496
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Speaker 2: Do you have any tips? I'm sure you'd get lots too,

497
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Speaker 2: And it's just a really.

498
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Speaker 3: Simple mainly for teenagers, just how to start a business,

499
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Speaker 3: how to come up with an idea, like how to

500
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 3: think of product pricing, where to find a supplier, like

501
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 3: the basics of starting a website, and then kind of

502
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Speaker 3: the basics of social media. And we started that six

503
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Speaker 3: months ago. It took us about two years to kind

504
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Speaker 3: of get it from an idea to a big document.

505
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Speaker 2: And it's gone pretty well.

506
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Speaker 3: People really like it, but we've been so busy we

507
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 3: haven't really given at the time that it needs.

508
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Speaker 1: That's everything that I do. Yeah, lestly, you just never

509
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Speaker 1: have the time to do all the things that you

510
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Speaker 1: want to do, even though you're already doing so many things. Yeah,

511
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 1: there's just never enough hours in the day. Well that's

512
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 1: very inspiring. Yeah, we're always talking about like all the

513
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,680
Speaker 1: exciting and positive and sparkly things here on the pod.

514
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,639
Speaker 1: But do you have like a business blunder that you

515
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Speaker 1: could share with us?

516
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Speaker 2: Yes.

517
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Speaker 3: Back in I think twenty twenty one, we released a

518
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Speaker 3: clothing range. So it was Sequence skirts, a sequin jumps

519
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 3: through and these little shirts. It was what I love

520
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 3: to wear because Mum used to make them for me

521
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 3: when I do like media things. She'd make me little

522
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Speaker 3: Sequence skirts and stuff. And I was like, why don't

523
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Speaker 3: we sell this, Like surely people would love it, Like

524
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 3: at Big w they only have you know, the cheap,

525
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 3: bad quality, nothing really super sparkly. So we spent ages

526
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Speaker 3: trying to find supplies. We did a very very big

527
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Speaker 3: order of the Sequence clothing and it took us I

528
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Speaker 3: think four years to sell the one order we did.

529
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, no, yeah, so it you.

530
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we should have done a lot smaller of an order.

531
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Speaker 3: And I think it's probably not on the market for

532
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Speaker 3: a reason because it's so expensive to get Sequence made

533
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Speaker 3: it takes a lot of time, and yeah, I just

534
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Speaker 3: think people don't really want to wear that.

535
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Speaker 2: I guess. Unfortunately, it was a hard lessing.

536
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Speaker 1: And how did that make you feel at the time?

537
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Speaker 1: Did it make you feel a little bit defeated?

538
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we worked so hard. We did the

539
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Speaker 2: big photo shoot.

540
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Speaker 3: It was probably the biggest launch we've done. But I

541
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Speaker 3: also think I was a lot younger, so we weren't

542
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Speaker 3: doing as much on socials.

543
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Speaker 2: We weren't, you know, the business was a lot different. Yeah.

544
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Speaker 1: Do you think you could do it again now? And

545
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Speaker 1: maybe you have a bit more success.

546
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 3: We do a lot of things different, but maybe in

547
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Speaker 3: the future when we have more time.

548
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we make a time machine, yes, so we

549
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: can have more time.

550
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Speaker 2: Time a day.

551
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love it. So what are the future

552
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 1: plans for glitter Girl? You've obviously been doing this for

553
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: what seven years?

554
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Speaker 2: Now years?

555
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: You've been in business the same amount of time as me.

556
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Speaker 2: Crazy, but you're seventeen.

557
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Speaker 1: Wow, what are the future plans? Obviously you never could

558
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Speaker 1: have predicted that you'd be where you are today? Do

559
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Speaker 1: you have future plans for glitter Girl? You're kind of

560
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: just rolling with the punches.

561
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Speaker 3: I don't really have any set goals. I feel like

562
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 3: all the goals I've made have been achieved. Like, I

563
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 3: don't really know. I don't have anything that I'm like,

564
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 3: I really want to do that because I've done all

565
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 3: the things that I've kind of dreamed of. But it's

566
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 3: just to keep growing. I mean, now I have all

567
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 3: the time in the world that I'm not at school,

568
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 3: we can be a lot more organized. That's just kind

569
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 3: of our goal for next year. Be organized, spend more

570
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 3: time working on your products, because the past eight years

571
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 3: it's been we should do a sale tomorrow and then

572
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: we quickly form all the videos, make an email, and

573
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Speaker 3: then do the sale tomorrow. As I have more time,

574
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 3: we can really be organized and map things out a

575
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Speaker 3: lot more.

576
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Speaker 1: Do you use a program to be organized? We use Milano, Yeah,

577
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Speaker 1: so do I I was going to recommend it to

578
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: you if you didn't already know. Well, yeah, it's the best. Yeah,

579
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: that's my recommendation for everyone. Yeah, so good. I don't

580
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Speaker 1: know what I would do without Milano.

581
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got everything on there.

582
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need them to sponsor to the podcast we

583
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: talk about them. And so you have no real big

584
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: goals and plans, it's just kind of the sky's the limit.

585
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, just growing. Yeah.

586
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: I feel the same in my business if I'm being honest, Yeah,

587
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: this guy's the limit.

588
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

589
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Speaker 4: I have one question for you. Yes, if a ten

590
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Speaker 4: year old came to you today with the business idea,

591
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Speaker 4: what advice would you give them?

592
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Speaker 3: Okay, my advice would be to just start, Like, don't

593
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 3: spend all the time in the world looking for the

594
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 3: perfect name, the perfect product, the perfect everything. You'll learn

595
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 3: along the way, Like, you don't need to spend ten

596
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 3: years doing a business course to learn.

597
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 2: How to start a business. Just start it.

598
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Speaker 3: There's resources out there, you'll find people to help you,

599
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 3: Like I think, yeah, just don't wait.

600
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Speaker 2: Start when you can exactly right.

601
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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people can get a

602
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: bit all caught up in their head and it's got

603
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: to be perfect before I launch. And because there's so

604
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: many businesses out there now, it's easy to compare, compare yourself.

605
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: Everyone else is doing what everyone else is doing, even

606
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: though someone might be eight years into their business already.

607
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: But I think that's a really important lesson, is just

608
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: get started and fear out the rest of it.

609
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Speaker 2: Wait for the perfect time.

610
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Speaker 1: There is no perfect time, exactly this is the perfect time. Yeah, Sophia,

611
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Speaker 1: I could chat with you four hours. I feel like

612
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking to myself but younger, which is so cool.

613
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Speaker 1: We always wrap up every Big Business episode with the tip.

614
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Speaker 2: Of the week.

615
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Speaker 1: I feel like you've already given us some tips. Oh yeah,

616
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Speaker 1: do you have any that you can share with us?

617
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: It can be business, or it can be life, it

618
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: can be organization, it can be anything.

619
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Speaker 2: Maybe just trust yourself. I mean, yeah, you know, you

620
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 2: know what you want.

621
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 3: To do, you the motivations inside of you, Like, just

622
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: trust yourself, believe in yourself.

623
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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree.

624
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 2: I don't know what could happen.

625
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: You've got to be your number one fan in yes,

626
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: of course, with the support of friends and family. Yeah, like,

627
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 1: you've got to be your number one fan first out

628
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: of back yourself before anyone else. I'm my number one fan.

629
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Speaker 1: I'm cracking up at my videos every night.

630
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Speaker 2: I reckon. Yeah.

631
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming on Big Business.

632
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Speaker 1: Where can everyone find you and glitter Girl and your products?

633
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: Obviously we can't run through the two hundred stores that

634
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: you're in. Yeah, but where can everyone find you?

635
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: Good a girl?

636
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: Dot?

637
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: Are you on all social media? And then Our website

638
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: is just goodgirl dot com dot au.

639
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: And all your stores are they like listed on your website?

640
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah or just DMUs and we can help them find one.

641
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: Will that be you or your mum?

642
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: Me? Oh?

643
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: Mom? Actually, I love it. Thank you so much for

644
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: coming on having me

645
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 2: Y