Ep.30 A Masterclass on Climbing the Corporate Ladder with Shopify MD Shimona Mehta

02/27/23 • 64 min

Shimona Mehta is an acclaimed tech pioneer with extensive experience in retail, technology, food and beverage. Awarded for being one of the UK’s most influential retail leaders, Shimona is best known for being the Managing Director of EMEA for Shopify - the leading e-commerce hub for independent brands. Designed to make buying and selling easy, Shopify offers businesses a range of tools to design, manage and grow an online store, hosting numerous high-growth brands including Deliveroo, Lindt, and Heinz.

Delving deeper, Shimona and I get real on female leadership in the tech industry touching on the uphill battle for women to reach the top and also so they feel like they belong there. We have a Q&A on side hustles, we answer all your questions on Instagram on when you should know you need to leave your job, how you should build your business and how you should overcome failure.

The career path that took Shimona Mehta to become MD

Making the move from consumer goods to tech

How Shimona built career progression

The journey of setting up Shopify in London

What Shimona looks for when she hires

Shimona's experience with imposter syndrome

How Shimona became a good leader

The barriers Shimona has come across

The importance of managerial training

Why we need women in tech

Diversity and recruitment

How to start your side hustle

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The career path that took Shimona Mehta to become MD

Making the move from consumer goods to tech

How Shimona built career progression

The journey of setting up Shopify in London

What Shimona looks for when she hires

Shimona's experience with imposter syndrome

How Shimona became a good leader

The barriers Shimona has come across

The importance of managerial training

Why we need women in tech

Diversity and recruitment

How to start your side hustle

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ep.29 Love It Or Lose It: Managing A Startup With Founder Josephine Philips

Josephine Phillips is the 24 year old visionary behind the Sojo app, the online platform on a mission to make clothing alterations and repairs mainstream. Founded to shape a more sustainable fashion future and dubbed by Vogue as the ‘deliveroo of clothing repairs’, Sojo connects buyers of pre-loved clothes with local seamstresses who can tailor the garments to fit. The app not only extends the lifespan of our clothes but allows us to fall in love with them all over again and has already been integrated by several brands including Ganni and Hurr.

Sitting within the Gen Z category herself, Josephine is startlingly aware of her eco-conscious yet convenience-obsessed generation and her aim is to shift the mindset within this space, making sustainable choices more accessible for the masses. Having recently raised over $2.4 million in pre-seed funding invested by the likes of the Founder of Depop, Pangaia’s former COO, the president of menswear at Tom Ford and myself, this is just the beginning for Sojo, and the start of Josephine Phillips becoming a force of her generation within the sustainable fashion space.

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Ep.31 Do We Share Too Much Online? Influencer Sarah's Day Reveals The Dark Side Of Being A Social Media Star

Sarah Tilse, more commonly known as ‘Sarah’s Day’ is an Australian fitness influencer and YouTuber best known for her fitness, diet and wellness content. Whilst studying to become a teacher, Sarah began her online journey by posting about her hormonal acne online as a way to source advice but also to help others who were struggling with it as well. This expanded into fitness, wellness and lifestyle content, and on the date of this recording Sarah has over 3 million followers across her Instagram and YouTube channels, and is the founder of multiple companies including Sarah’s Day, her personal brand, fitness ebooks and app, Sunee App - her recipe app, The Healthcode Podcast and The House of Groms, a creative strategy and production company. Sarah has also created products with several global brands including multiple drops on her own activewear line with White Fox, and her own protein and supplement powders with Tropeaka.

Having shared her life online for over 10 years including the birth of her two sons, Sarah has grown up in the digital space, and has had a lot of learnings along the way. Going from 5am wake ups and spending hours in the gym each day adhering to an incredibly strict diet, to juggling several businesses and two children, Sarah has seen incredible success from her work online but of course there have been some sticky moments too.

brief overview of Sarah's backstory

how Sarah blew up on social media

Sarah's health and fitness journey

how Sarah met her husband

.- the creation of her first e-book and how it caused a viral event

the financial success of the ebook and paying off $40k in debt

dealing with cancel culture and being part of toxic Fitspo culture

losing her period due to weight-loss

should we platform 20 year olds?

moving from fitness content to family vlogging

the concept of context collapse

would Sarah's Day do anything differently?