Made You Look Jewellery

11/09/21 • 36 min

What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black

At 23, Sarah Dougall bought a building and started a jewellery store...and she was pregnant when she did it. Now, 20 years later, she shares her business wisdom with What's This Place Podcast. It's an incredible story of retail perseverance. How has she made so many people look...both online and in real life?
What is this place? Let's go inside and find out.

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What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - Made You Look Jewellery

Transcript

Made You Look Final

[00:00:00] Miranda Black: At 23, Sarah Dougal was in jewelry school. When she realized the options to sell her work. Once she'd graduated, you know, the business end of being a maker, they were slim to none that was 20 years ago back in 2001. And she decided her best solution was to open her own store with this unique business model.

She breaks down. Because I did not operate like this, but I kind of wished I had, oh, and she wa