Tweaking your Mind and your Life with more Tankespjärn by Helena Roth
08/05/20 • 58 min
- The Creative’s Workshop and tankespjärn (2:56)
- That pivotal moment when Helena discovered the concept of tankespjärn (10:40)
- Doing gentle with an edge (16:00)
- How does this serve me? (24:17)
- Who is tankespjärn for? ( 27:19)
- How Helena uses tankespjärn in her work? (29:27)
- Tankespjärn applied to the development of a business (34:23)
- The benefits of a tankespjärn review of the business as it is constantly evolving (37:50)
- To find out more about Helena and tankespjärn (43:14)
- There is no Truth [time capsule question] (46:39)
- My recent tankespjärn moment (50:25)
CONNECT WITH HELENA ROTH
Read Helena's Blog: https://helenaroth.com/
Listen to Podcast: Tankespjarn with Helena Roth
Join the tankespjärn Community on Patreon
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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
The Creative's Workshop, an Akimbo workshop by Seth Godin
Buddhas by the Roadside, a series of conversations with Helena
Prior guests that are living example of a tankespjärn life (according to Helena):
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Host: Leekei Tang
Contact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.com
Music credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes
- The Creative’s Workshop and tankespjärn (2:56)
- That pivotal moment when Helena discovered the concept of tankespjärn (10:40)
- Doing gentle with an edge (16:00)
- How does this serve me? (24:17)
- Who is tankespjärn for? ( 27:19)
- How Helena uses tankespjärn in her work? (29:27)
- Tankespjärn applied to the development of a business (34:23)
- The benefits of a tankespjärn review of the business as it is constantly evolving (37:50)
- To find out more about Helena and tankespjärn (43:14)
- There is no Truth [time capsule question] (46:39)
- My recent tankespjärn moment (50:25)
CONNECT WITH HELENA ROTH
Read Helena's Blog: https://helenaroth.com/
Listen to Podcast: Tankespjarn with Helena Roth
Join the tankespjärn Community on Patreon
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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
The Creative's Workshop, an Akimbo workshop by Seth Godin
Buddhas by the Roadside, a series of conversations with Helena
Prior guests that are living example of a tankespjärn life (according to Helena):
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Host: Leekei Tang
Contact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.com
Music credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes
Previous Episode
Saving Fair Isle Knitting Tradition by Mati Ventrillon - Part 2
The MV collection stemmed from a dream of bringing machines to Fair Isle to trigger the development of other businesses in the island (3:43)
The cost breakdown of a hand-knitted jumper (7:10)
The MV collection was inspired by museum pieces and how the “Hooded Jumper” was born (9:33)
The colorwork and innovation in the “Crew Neck Jumper” (12:40)
The MV collection is a celebration of the very early Fair Isle knitting design, yet industrially manufactured (15:16)
Challenges with the 2018 MV collection (17:42)
Learnings from the MV collection (19:25)
It's very difficult to put your passions and your beliefs into words, creating a business or a brand. How to transmit the message? (21:47)
Why the mainstream fashion system doesn’t work for Mati (22:45)
Why is it more important for Mati to produce pieces that are made to last (25:55)
The new design ideas need to be a celebration of the island and of its traditions, it has to be more profound than a simple change of color (a computer can do it!) (26:50)
Mati thinks that we are entering a period where like-minded individuals and communities are more important. Connecting with people will probably be the answer to grow the business (27:45)
Advice for building a meaningful brand: make sure that you know perfectly what is it that you're standing for? And then to grow from there and to keep that connection as you grow and as you diversify (31:07)
Book coming out in September “KNITTING FROM FAIR ISLE” (33:34)
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CONNECT WITH MATI VENTRILLON https://www.mativentrillon.co.uk/
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Pre-order Mati's book "KNITTING FROM FAIR ISLE" by Mati Ventrillon
Host: Leekei Tang
Contact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.com
Music credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes
Next Episode
Building a Successful Handbag Brand Fresh from College by Julia Skergeth
- Julia’s cross-country education and experiences (1:59)
- How Julia’s brand is connected to her personal vision (2:43)
- How Julia Skargeth brand started in Asia (4:30)
- How launching a Kickstarter campaign led Julia to ... take over a factory in Indonesia (10:00)
- A crisis is a chance to grow and to get better (12:36)
- Why Julia relocated production in Europe and restarting the brand (13:28)
- On transparency as part of the brand storytelling (18:00)
- Julia’s creative process on the fringe of the traditional fashion calendar (24:02)
- Brand’s further developments (27:12)
- What brings joy to Julia from her business (28:51)
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TO CONNECT WITH JULIA
Julia Skergeth website: https://www.juliaskergeth.com/en/welcome/
On Instagram: skergeth_official
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Host: Leekei Tang
Contact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.com
Music credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes
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