Tash Talks TV
Tash Talks TV 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.
Episodes
22 episodes
The $100B Problem That’s Costing Ecom Brands Big, with LEAF
Gilbert Corrales and Wes Hartley, co-founders of LEAF, join Tash to expose a silent killer in the world of e-commerce: broken conversion tracking. With backgrounds in music tech and data engineering, Gil and Wes have built one of th...
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38:44
How Tara Lynn found herself – and now helps others do the same
Season 3 of Tash Talks continues with a powerful conversation with Tara Lynn, certified life coach and mindset mentor to thousands of women online.Tara opens up about hitting burnout, leaving her career, and relighting her fire wi...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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37:18
From mum’s kitchen to £10m brand — The Absolute Collagen story with co-founder Darcy Laceby
Darcy Laceby co-founded Absolute Collagen at just 19, helping to turn her mum Maxine’s kitchen creation into one of the UK’s fastest-growing beauty supplement brands. In this episode of Tash Talks, Darcy sits down with Tash t...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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30:18
How Melissa Snover 3D-printed her way to a multi-million pound nutrition brand
Season 3 of Tash Talks kicks off with a powerhouse episode featuring Melissa Snover, the founder of Nourished – the world’s first 3D-printed personalised gummy vitamin brand.Melissa shares how a craving for gelatin...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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30:00
From baby blues to breakthrough brand: How Fiona Toomey built NAYDAYA
In this special episode of Tash Talks, recorded as part of Triffin’s Founder Stories series, Fiona Toomey opens up about founding NAYDAYA — the skincare brand redefining postpartum and hormon...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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26:37
Building BYBI: How two beauty insiders scaled a sustainable skincare empire
In this special episode of Tash Talks – recorded in partnership with Triffin's Founder Stories series – Tash, alongside Frank from Triffin, sits down with BYBI co-founders Elsie and Dominika, the beauty entrepreneurs on a...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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31:22
Finance mastery: How to conquer cash flow and ignite growth for DTC brands
In this episode, Tash sits down with Franklin Martin, founder of Triffin, a platform providing intelligent finance tools tailored for DTC brands. Franklin discusses how Triffin assists founders and finance teams in aut...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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30:03
Fair Forecast: Meet the guys disrupting eCom with fixed CPAs (and who get stuff done)
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Joel Williams and Adam Wilmshurst, the powerhouse duo behind Fair Forecast, to unpack how they’re disrupting the e-commerce landscape with fixed CPA affiliate marketing – and d...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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48:53
Agency founder Louis Fulcher: From wrapping Ford vans to branding for McDonald’s
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Louis Fulcher, founder of branding agency Unearthed, to explore the unexpected journey from sticking graphics on Ford Transits to building brands for companies like McDonald's....
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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41:09
DTC recruitment: Why you can’t find the right talent – and how you can fix that problem
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Luke Plane, founder of Fulfilled Talent, to discuss why recruitment in e-commerce is broken—and what brands can do to attract and retain the best talent.Luke sh...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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55:17
Agency founder: I went from dropshipping t-shirts to building a leading Shopify agency
In this special bonus episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Rebecca Worsley, founder of Rainy City Agency, to discuss her wildly unconventional path from flipping Amazon FBA products to building a leading Shopify ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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58:28
Female founders: The truth about money—why women get only 2% of investment
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Laura Rudoe, founder of Evolve Beauty, and Lucy Cohen, co-founder of Mazuma Accounting, to discuss the realities of bootstrapping, fundraising, and build...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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33:16
Bird & Blend's Krisi Smith: I hated tea—but then I founded a multi-million-pound tea brand
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Krisi Smith, co-founder of Bird & Blend Tea Co., to discuss how she turned a love for creative blending into a disruptive, fast-growing tea brand with nearly 20 st...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:09
Jo-Tutchener-Sharp: A brain hemorrhage changed my life – so I built a fashion empire with a purpose
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Jo Tutchener-Sharp, founder of Scamp & Dude, to discuss how a life-changing health scare led her to build one of the UK’s most loved purpose-driven fashion brands....
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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34:40
Sahar Hashemi: I built a £30m brand – and now I’m fighting for other female founders
In this episode, Tash sits down with Sahar Hashemi, serial entrepreneur and founder of Buy Women Built, to discuss her mission to support female-founded brands and close the £200B gender gap in entrepreneurship.Sahar shares...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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31:19
Maxine Laceby: I was 50 and making bone broth at home. Then I built a £30m brand.
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Maxine Laceby, founder of Absolute Collagen, to discuss how she built the UK’s biggest collagen brand from her kitchen table at 50 years old – with zero business experience.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:44
Brie Read: I built a £44m business with no investors—just WhatsApp.
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Brie Read, founder and CEO of Snag Tights, to discuss how a wardrobe malfunction on the streets of Edinburgh led to a £44 million business and a global community of customers.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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32:48
Susie Ma: I started with £200 at a market stall. Now I run a beauty empire.
In this episode, Tash sits down with Susie Ma, founder and CEO of Tropic Skincare, to discuss her remarkable journey from selling homemade body scrubs at a market stall to building one of the UK’s fastest-growing beauty brands.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:19
Elemis founders: We turned a £3,000 loan into a global skincare brand
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Oriele Frank and Noella Gabriel, the powerhouse co-founders of Elemis, to uncover the three-decade journey behind one of the UK’s most iconic skincare brands.Orie...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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27:49
Millie Kendall: From the shop floor to changing UK law
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Millie Kendall OBE, CEO of the British Beauty Council, to discuss her trailblazing career in beauty, business, and advocacy. From launching Ruby & Millie, one of the U...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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27:02
Eshita Kabra: I had no tech background. Now I run the UK’s biggest fashion rental app.
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Eshita Kabra, founder of By Rotation, the UK’s first peer-to-peer fashion rental platform that’s revolutionising the way we consume fashion.Eshita shares:How...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:17
Maria Hatzistefanis: I got fired from banking. So I built a beauty empire.
In this episode of Tash Talks TV, Tash sits down with Maria Hatzistefanis, the founder of Rodial, one of the UK’s most iconic beauty brands. Maria shares her remarkable journey – from studying literature in Greece to w...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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36:58