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Circonomy: Divorcing your Business Partner
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Yasmin Grigaliunas, founder of Circonomy, is an entrepreneur who turned a charity garage sale into a thriving circular economy business. In this candid episode, Yasmin shares her journey from corporate success to start-up struggles, including the challenges of running a business while navigating a divorce. Her story is a masterclass in resilience, innovative problem-solving, and redefining success on her own terms. From designing her own divorce management strategy to successfully raising capital as a female founder, Yasmin offers invaluable insights for entrepreneurs facing personal and professional challenges.
Covered in this episode:
- The origin story: Leaving behind a successful corporate career to start the charity World’s Biggest Garage Sale.
- How World’s Biggest Garage Sale grew into Circonomy, a business rescuing and reselling idle/damaged goods from major retailers.
- Hard lessons learnt from being an early innovator.
- How to be the most coachable founder.
- Becoming a solo founder, marriage counselling, and divorcing your business partner.
- Designing a strong divorce strategy.
- Top tips for someone going through a divorce and trying to retain their business.
- Top tips for raising capital as a female founder.
- Yasmin’s mantra for business.
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