Tash Insights
Tash Insights brings you inside the minds of female brand founders and the leaders of the UK’s fastest-growing e-commerce tech companies.
Hosted by Tash Courtenay-Smith – serial entrepreneur, investor, NED and fractional Head of Growth – each episode dives into the strategies, challenges, and breakthroughs that have shaped the futures of some of the UK's leading founders.
Whether you’re a founder, investor, tech lover or you just love hearing the growth stories behind top brands, this is the podcast for you.
Tash Insights
EmpowHER: How real CPG brands are built, broken and rebuilt
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This panel was recorded live at EmpowHER.
Hosted by Nicole Harvey, this candid, story-driven conversation brings together female founders and senior operators from across beauty, wellness, supplements and e-commerce, including Tash.
The panel walks through the real moments behind well-known products, early assumptions that proved wrong, product and brand decisions that didn’t land, and the rebuilds that ultimately unlocked scale.
Through a guided Build → Break → Rebuild discussion, the panel covers:
- Core beliefs founders held early on that later turned out to be wrong
- How customer behaviour forced product, brand or positioning changes
- The operational realities of scaling CPG brands
- Where AI and automation genuinely help, and where human judgement still matters
- Why trust, credibility and figurehead-led brands remain powerful growth levers
Panelists Anna Persaud, CEO of This Works, Julietta Contoguris of Heights, Tash, and Natasha Whiting of Dozzz Sleep and Kollo Health share unfiltered insights.
If you’re building, operating, or investing in consumer brands, this session offers an honest look at what growth really looks like behind the scenes, and why most successful brands aren’t built in a straight line.