How To Be a Model & Secrets to Fashion Success | Ft Taryn Williams | The How Story

From Model to Mogul: Taryn Williams on Building Wink Models, The Right Fit & Hash GiftedIn this powerful episode of House Story, we sit down with one of Australia’s most inspiring female entrepreneurs, Taryn Williams - founder of Wink Models, The Right Fit, and Hash Gifted. Taryn shares the raw, unfiltered journey of how she built a modelling empire from scratch at the age of 21 and scaled it into a tech-driven talent business that revolutionised the Australian modelling and influencer industry.🔥 Key topics in this episode:The early hustle of launching Wink Models with 500+ talent Australia-wideWhy she didn’t pay herself for two years — and how she made that workBuilding a custom tech platform to scale a modelling agencyThe leap into marketplaces with The Right FitFundraising, building MVPs, and learning the hard lessons of tech entrepreneurshipWhy she launched Hash Gifted, the platform reshaping brand-creator giftingThe realities of rejection, resilience, and what makes great talent succeedWhat new models, creators, and entrepreneurs need to know about contracts, usage rights & professional growthWhy AI is disrupting the creative economy — and how Taryn is preparing for it👠 Whether you're an aspiring model, startup founder, creator, or investor — this episode is a goldmine of insights. Taryn doesn’t hold back. She opens up about the challenges of bootstrapping, the realities of marketplaces, hiring strategies, retaining top talent, and how to spot gaps in the market.💡 Top quotes from Taryn Williams:“You can’t replace founder energy.”“You don’t need to have it all figured out — but you do need to work harder than anyone else.”“AI won’t replace humans — but it will replace humans who don’t use AI.”🎧 Listen now if you’re searching for:How to become a model in AustraliaWhat it takes to run a modelling agencyThe future of creator marketing and influencer techEntrepreneurial lessons from female foundersTips on building tech platforms for service-based businessesReal talk on investor funding, MVPs, and building to exit👩‍💻 More about Taryn:Taryn is a multi-exit founder, tech innovator and champion of ethical creator and modelling industries. After building a national modelling agency with over 500 models, she founded The Right Fit — a game-changing platform for booking creative talent — and Hash Gifted, which streamlines the gifting process between brands and creators. Most recently, she launched Online Model Academy (OMA) to educate and prepare the next generation of models.📈 As someone who has built, scaled and exited a tech business, Taryn shares an incredible perspective on female leadership, the power of hustle, the role of data and software in scaling service-based brands, and why she believes the future of talent is hybrid — part human, part AI.Don’t forget to follow the show and leave a review if you’re loving the House Story podcast. New episodes drop weekly featuring Australia’s most disruptive founders, creatives, and changemakers.#tarynwilliams #winkmodels #therightfit #hashgifted #australianentrepreneurs #femaleentrepreneurs #modellingagency #creatorplatform #startupstories #australianpodcast #founderstory #modelcareer #howtobecomeamodel #influencermarketing #creatorstrategy #techstartup #saasstartup #aiandcreativity #housepodcast