Sara Davies, founder of Crafter's Companion
12/02/19 • 36 min
Sara Davies MBE is the founder and creative director of Crafter’s Companion, which designs, manufactures and sells its craft-related products to customers across 40 countries and employs more than 200 people worldwide. She established Crafter’s Companion while studying at York University.
In 2016, Sara was presented with an MBE in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours List, for services to the economy. She is a keen champion of women in business, mentoring and the North East of England! More recently, Sara was named as the youngest entrepreneur to join BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den.
On this episode we discuss being immersed in business from a young age, how Sara started a six figure business whilst at university, and how to transform shyness into confidence.
Find out more about Sara on her website here.
Follow her on Instagram here.
Sara Davies MBE is the founder and creative director of Crafter’s Companion, which designs, manufactures and sells its craft-related products to customers across 40 countries and employs more than 200 people worldwide. She established Crafter’s Companion while studying at York University.
In 2016, Sara was presented with an MBE in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours List, for services to the economy. She is a keen champion of women in business, mentoring and the North East of England! More recently, Sara was named as the youngest entrepreneur to join BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den.
On this episode we discuss being immersed in business from a young age, how Sara started a six figure business whilst at university, and how to transform shyness into confidence.
Find out more about Sara on her website here.
Follow her on Instagram here.
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The childhood influences of future entrepreneurs and business leaders. Season one round-up presented by Jodie Cook and Ben Cook
After recording 17 interviews with 17 amazing guests, we started to see trends between their childhood influences. Listen to this season one summary episode to find out the 6 trends that came up several times. Revisit each episode using the link below:
- Craig Donaldson, CEO of Metro Bank
- Jessica Wheeler, principal of Elmhurst Ballet School
- Jordan Daykin, CEO of Gripit
- Emma Jones MBE, founder of Enterprise Nation
- Mike Bandar, founding partner of Turn Partners
- Graham Allcott, author & founder of Think Productive
- Oona Collins, CEO of Potential Plus International
- Paul Faulkner, CEO of the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
- Deepak Tailor, founder of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk
- Phill Jupitus, comedian and poet
- Jeremy Walker, technology entrepreneur
- Charlotte Hodson, cofounder of Awesome Merch
- Andy Street CBE, mayor of the West Midlands
- Benjamin Banks, founder of SBD Apparel
- Katrina Owen, ecosystem engineer at GitHub
- Carrie Green, founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association
- Sara Davies, founder of Crafter's Companion
The six trends we explore in more detail:
- Change or disruption
- Big wide world
- Experience of work
- Inquisitive with a desire to learn
- Independence
- Role models
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