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Podcast 47 - I Was Gonnae Podcast - Becky Woodhouse I was gonnae
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Becky Woodhouse - Founder and CEO of Pure Spa and Beauty
Spending 2 1/2months of the COVID lockdown stranded in Bangkok gave Becky Woodhouse time to reflect on her Pure Spa and beauty business. Uncertain if the business she had built up over nearly 20 years could survive a pandemic. But as you will hear Becky is extremely resilient, hardworking, and always finds a way.
Becky was born in Norwich and at the age of 10 her resilience was apparent when she had to fight her case in an education system which she says ‘felt like they expected her to fail’ and they had ‘No real expectation about students going to University’. ‘Maths sits well with me’ and she thought ‘perhaps a rounded business career would suit’ and started applying to some accountancy firms. Becky was initially rejected from PWC and was so upset at the rejection that she ‘hot-footed it down to the PWC offices and said I am definitely the person you need for this job; you need to reinterview me!’ and was subsequently offered the job.
At 27, Becky founded the Pure Spa and beauty business and takes a lease on her first premises and ended up her dad and Becky completed the fit-out of the shop themselves, painting the walls alongside her 6-month-old baby! Shop fit-out completed she realised she could open the shop but had forgotten to think about marketing the business so purchased 10000 leaflets and hand-delivered these leaflets to tenement flats these with her son Morgan in a pram! - ‘There is no easy way to build up a customer base there are no shortcuts, you have to put in the hours, put in the work’.
Listen to more of Becky’s story now.
Becky Woodhouse - Founder and CEO of Pure Spa and Beauty
Spending 2 1/2months of the COVID lockdown stranded in Bangkok gave Becky Woodhouse time to reflect on her Pure Spa and beauty business. Uncertain if the business she had built up over nearly 20 years could survive a pandemic. But as you will hear Becky is extremely resilient, hardworking, and always finds a way.
Becky was born in Norwich and at the age of 10 her resilience was apparent when she had to fight her case in an education system which she says ‘felt like they expected her to fail’ and they had ‘No real expectation about students going to University’. ‘Maths sits well with me’ and she thought ‘perhaps a rounded business career would suit’ and started applying to some accountancy firms. Becky was initially rejected from PWC and was so upset at the rejection that she ‘hot-footed it down to the PWC offices and said I am definitely the person you need for this job; you need to reinterview me!’ and was subsequently offered the job.
At 27, Becky founded the Pure Spa and beauty business and takes a lease on her first premises and ended up her dad and Becky completed the fit-out of the shop themselves, painting the walls alongside her 6-month-old baby! Shop fit-out completed she realised she could open the shop but had forgotten to think about marketing the business so purchased 10000 leaflets and hand-delivered these leaflets to tenement flats these with her son Morgan in a pram! - ‘There is no easy way to build up a customer base there are no shortcuts, you have to put in the hours, put in the work’.
Listen to more of Becky’s story now.
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