Let's Talk Shop with Hazel and Jimmy from The Wood Life Project

In this episode of Let’s Talk Shop I speak with Hazel and Jimmy Russell from The Wood Life Project. I have had the pleasure of working with Hazel and Jimmy and I really love their thoughtful products I really admire how they have built their business over the last year.

What really hit me while I was editing this podcast is just how much they have achieved in just one year, from incorporating in January 2019 to finding a manufacturer, changing manufacturer, exhibiting at a tradeshow and being stocked in around 30 stores in less than 12 months, it’s truly inspiring and in this episode, we talk all about how they achieved this.

-Why Hazel and Jimmy decided to start a business, how they came up with an idea and what has been instrumental in making this reality.

-The biggest challenges and surprises they have come across during their first year in business.

-How not knowing everything might have helped them rather than hindered them.

-How it was to exhibit at a trade show for the first time, speak to stockists and buyers and what they have learned.

-The importance of providing good customer service to their stockists, big and small retailers.

 

Connect with The Wood Life Project

Website: https://www.thewoodlifeproject.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewoodlifeproject/

 

 

Links mentioned in this episode

Mean Mail: https://www.meanmail.co/

And Create: https://www.and-create.com/

Friends of Jules: https://www.joules.com/friends/The%20Wood%20Life%20Project

Not on the high street: https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/thewoodlifeproject

Mama Brown and Co: https://mamabrown.co.uk/collections/tableware

Veronica Dearly: https://veronicadearly.com/

Holly Tucker: https://holly.co/

Conversations of inspiration: https://holly.co/podcast/

Julie Deane, The Cambridge Satchel Co: https://www.cambridgesatchel.com/

Will Jones, The Black Farmer: https://www.theblackfarmer.com/

Healeys: https://healeys-printers.co.uk/

Top Drawer: https://www.topdrawer.co.uk/

Darren Harper from Tech Velocity: https://www.techvelocity.co.uk/ 

 

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