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Futuresteading
S2 E19 Natural Harry on cooking, collaboration and (anti)consumerism.
Hey multi-passionate peeps! Here's a chick who's notorious for turning every hobby into a jobbie and doing it pretty darn brilliantly.
Harriet Birrell, aka. Natural Harry, is a serial entrepreneur who specialises in healthy, conscious, creative businesses with heart -- and today we're quizzing her about her process.
Harry shares her intuitive approach to business and life, maintaining a flexible schedule that allows for creativity, evolving projects to align with her values (even if that means shutting them down) and finding success despite 'not having a business brain'.
This open-water-swimming, tiny-house-dwelling, deliciously-self-deprecating woman is a breath of fresh air in a world of slick brands and brazen confidence. Down-to-earth all the way.
SHOW NOTES
- Her free range farm childhood with veggie gardens, camping trips, paddock picnics
- Maintaining complexity in creative avenues rather than falling into simplicity
- Never wanting to be boxed by one career choice
- The struggle of defining what you do
- The value of a morning routine
- Box breathing to reset overwhelm
- Acknowledging your future self when building your day
- The power of self depreciation and putting your imperfections on show
- The hypocrisy of owning a retail shop despite it being an ethical purchase
- The value of keeping high quality things in circulation rather than perpetuating consumption
- Not being the expert
- Sharing her knowledge and asking others to make it their own
- Creating her books and then using them like everyone else who buys them
- The short termism of fulfilling ourselves with anything other than deep personal satisfaction
- Daily habits: dry body brushing
- Judgement: do it less!
- Collaboration is key. Even as an entity in your own right, we need others around us to make it all come to life.
- Tales of her three businesses
- Living close to the ocean and surrounded by nature
- Building community connections; how, why and what
- Lassooing her entrepreneurial spirit
- Taking risks by accident; finding success without a business brain
- The bad habit of turning her hobbies into a business
- Celebrating the wins to maintain motivation
LINKS YOU'LL LOVE
- Natural Harry online + Instagram
- Nikole Ramsay photography
- Zeitgeist (film series)