Out of Hours: The Podcast

Brought to you by Out of Hours: the community for people with side projects.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!We are joined today by Elle Huerta - founder and CEO of the app Mend - designed to help you heal from both break ups and work burnout.Following a late night Google search after a particularly bad break up - she found herself wondering if there was a better way to help people go through the pain of break ups and heal faster. Elle left Google simply to explore some passions she had neglected. She started doing an apprenticeship at a bakery, she did some start up consultancy, all whilst building Mend as a newsletter. Mend is now the app to help you heal from break ups and burn out, and has since been featured in countless press from the New York Times to Vogue and has been featured in Apple’s App of the year. Elle has been mentored by Jessica Alba, and raised over 2 million dollars in venture capital.We talk about letting go of achievement-based goals, how to build a successful app that isn’t addictive, her experience of raising venture capital, why break ups s and the life changing impact of a digital detox.P.S. If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today on the podcast we have Andy Ayim. Andy is a product leader and the founder of the Angel Investing School. He is also a 2020 Advisory Board Member for London Tech Week and was recently awarded an MBE for his services.The Angel Investing School is empowering a new breed of angel investors. Angel investors are high net worth individuals who provide financial backing for early startups or entrepreneurs in exchange for a percentage of ownership. The Angel Investing School aims to teach professionals from all backgrounds how to get started with investing in startups.We talk about what you should really consider when monetising your project, why it’s helpful to iterate in public, his 2 and 5 rule and why to keep a personal tracker.Sign up to his newsletter here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/Andy-AyimSign up to the Out of Hours newsletter here: outofhours.orgP.S. If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today's guest is Lisa Congdon - an artist, illustrator and author based in Oregon.Lisa Congdon is an artist, published author, illustrator. She’s based in Oregon, but known across the world for her colourful drawings and hand lettering. Her work has also attracted over 400,000 instagram followers, and she’s done commercial work for clients like Comme Des Garcons, Facebook, MoMa and Harvard University. Her 8 books include Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist. She also runs her own courses. Lisa started her art career as a side project in her late 30's, when she was working for a non profit. She is a constant advocate for showing up and getting started, but also understands how vulnerable early creative attempts can be. We talked about how to grow an audience, where imposter syndrome comes from, why we can be afraid of success, the value of starting late, when to know if something is a bad idea and why it can be important to keep your personal life separate from your work. See moreFollow Out of Hours on Instagram here.Follow Lisa Congdon on Instagram here.Thank you for listening to this episode! If you liked it, please do subscribe and leave a review.Or, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!What can you do to help in global pandemic if you’re not a doctor?Rachel Smith is a Latina UX Designer based in LA. She has now founded two global volunteer organisations, one Design and the other Mutual Aid.Design to Combat COVID-19 was set up to unite designers across the world to apply their skills to help solve problems caused by the pandemic.Out of this community came the idea Masks For Docs - a project set up to get personal protective equipment to nurses and doctors.They’ve delivered over 100,000 sets of PPE. Together the organisations now have over 7000+ global volunteers, across 6 continents. Design to Combat COVID19 has been featured in Google Design, Washington Post and Adobe for their work in the Design community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Dan Murray-Serter, our guest today, set out to have authentic conversations with entrepreneurs when launching his podcast Secret Leaders. The Secret Leaders podcast is the number one business podcast in the UK, and Dan has featured some of the world’s top entrepreneurs - from the founder of Bulb, Slack, Deliveroo, Planet Organic, Calm, Last Minute.com, and Jo Malone - to name but a few.He now runs Secret Leaders as a side project, alongside his new business Heights - a brain health & mental wellness company that offers a smart supplement for the brain, and who count among their customers Stephen Fry. He started Secret Leaders 4 years ago, when running one of his early companies, because he wanted to share some honest discussions with entrepreneurs about their rise to success - and he has since ran 5 seasons, attracted serious podcast sponsorship, ran live events and been featured in places like the Independent and Cosmopolitan. We talk about the right way to network, how to find your dream guests, why podcasts are a form of self improvement, and some really useful insights on how to launch, promote and grow your podcast.*****You can check it out at secretleaders.com or by searching 'Secret Leaders' any podcast player.If you want to try Heights, Dan's created a special 'outofhours' code that will get you £10 off their quarterly subscription - you can do that at www.yourheights.com.P.S. If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Becky Young, our guest today is the founder of Anti Diet Riot Club, an activist community and events platform dedicated to fighting back against ‘Diet Culture’ and what she calls the ‘dangerous standards of beauty that surround it’. She believes that empowering people to love themselves is a small but powerful resistance against a society that profits billions from our self-loathing. It started as a personal journey started to resonate with people across the world, and she has now built an online following of over 100,000 people. They host monthly events and workshops, they have also hosted a festival, ran a crowdfunding campaign and have been featured in places like The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, and Time Out as well as speaking on BBC news and to the London Mayer, Sadiq Khan.We talked about where moralistic eating came from, what we can do to remove shame from food, why getting bad comments when running a project can be so difficult and why it might always stay a side project.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today I’m speaking to Dan Zell - cofounder of the London Sock Exchange. The London Sock Exchange is a ecommerce store for socks. They started as a subscription business, and have since been stocked in John Lewis, as well as shops in New York, sell over 200,000 pairs a year and, been featured in the Financial Times and The Guardian. Dan still runs it as a side project alongside his job as Managing Partner at Decoded. We talk about why you might not want to take your project full time, the tricks of running an e-commerce store, how to start lean and why side projects can help you learn and discover what you’re good at. It’s full of practical tips and tricks especially with anyone with product idea, but useful for everyone.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Ever wondered what would happen if you turned away from that corporate career, and did something you believed should exist in the world? Today we have someone who did just that - Aishetu Fatima Dozie, who turned away from a career in banking to build bossy cosmetics. Aishetu spent over 20 years in finance and investment banking, and following a post grad year at Stanford decided to apply design thinking and build her own project: Bossy Beauty, what she calls a 'female empowerment company masquerading as a beauty company'. We talk about why side projects can unlock the authentic self, how to find and choose manufacturers, how to do research, and the true reason why she believes we all need to find our voice.Check out Bossy Cosmetics here.Sign up to Out of Hours here (outofhours.org) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Benedict Evans, a venture capitalist and analyst, shares insights on building a newsletter. He discusses the benefits of side projects in job interviews and the future of media bundling. He explores the impact of social media on the celebrity industry and the importance of authenticity in side projects. The chapter concludes by outlining indicators to consider before transitioning a side project into a full-time pursuit.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today's guest is Valentina Milanova - the founder and CEO of the female healthcare company Daye. Valentina set up Daye following a history of reading research papers at school on female health. The catalyst was when she discovered that industrial hemp could both make better more sustainable tampons, and be used as pain relief. She set up Daye out of hours, making prototypes herself at home, before finally deciding to quit her job. 180 investor meetings later, she received 5.5 million dollars in funding from some of the best venture capitalists in the world. We talk about how to do a good pitch, how to build credibility, how to build a prototype, how to do customer research and how it is being a sole founder. Check out Daye here, and join us to build your own side project here. To get £5 off your first pack use this code: OOHxDaye Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.