EPISODE · Oct 23, 2020 · 29 MIN
42: Sharmadean Reid MBE – Pushing your boundaries: how to see it, how to like it
from Change Makers: Leadership, Good Business, Ideas and Innovation · host Seven Hills
Sharmadean Reid is the Founder and CEO of Beautystack. Her mission is to use technology to economically empower women in the beauty and wellness industries, globally. A former fashion stylist and brand consultant who started WAH as a hip hop magazine for girls in 2006 while still at university, she then founded WAH Nails as a side project in 2009. WAH completely changed the beauty landscape with its millennial voice, feminist attitude and innovative salon space. In 2016 she opened a salon in Soho, London, showcasing a Virtual Reality Nail Design app in collaboration with DVTK and is constantly looking for ways to push the salon experience further through technology. With her experience from WAH, she founded Beautystack, a new way to book beauty through images. Alongside all of this she shares her journey by organising business events for young female entrepreneurs, culminating in futuregirlcorp.com.
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Michael speaks to founder and CEO of Beautystack, Sharmadean Reid. An innovator and leader in the beauty industry, Sharmadean has been pushing boundaries in how businesses adopt and use technology, empowering women in the beauty and wellness industry to promote their businesses through her platform. With the simple motto, “See it, like it, book it”, people are liking what they see, with the brand having raised £4m in seed funding last year and fans including Serena Williams and Margot Robbie. She talks about driving equality in the entrepreneurial and tech ecosystems, running a business during the pandemic, and why everyone in society must pull in the same direction to make change.
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