Out of Hours: The Podcast

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Becky Young, our guest today is the founder of Anti Diet Riot Club, an activist community and events platform dedicated to fighting back against ‘Diet Culture’ and what she calls the ‘dangerous standards of beauty that surround it’. She believes that empowering people to love themselves is a small but powerful resistance against a society that profits billions from our self-loathing. It started as a personal journey started to resonate with people across the world, and she has now built an online following of over 100,000 people. They host monthly events and workshops, they have also hosted a festival, ran a crowdfunding campaign and have been featured in places like The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, and Time Out as well as speaking on BBC news and to the London Mayer, Sadiq Khan.We talked about where moralistic eating came from, what we can do to remove shame from food, why getting bad comments when running a project can be so difficult and why it might always stay a side project.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today I’m speaking to Dan Zell - cofounder of the London Sock Exchange. The London Sock Exchange is a ecommerce store for socks. They started as a subscription business, and have since been stocked in John Lewis, as well as shops in New York, sell over 200,000 pairs a year and, been featured in the Financial Times and The Guardian. Dan still runs it as a side project alongside his job as Managing Partner at Decoded. We talk about why you might not want to take your project full time, the tricks of running an e-commerce store, how to start lean and why side projects can help you learn and discover what you’re good at. It’s full of practical tips and tricks especially with anyone with product idea, but useful for everyone.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Ever wondered what would happen if you turned away from that corporate career, and did something you believed should exist in the world? Today we have someone who did just that - Aishetu Fatima Dozie, who turned away from a career in banking to build bossy cosmetics. Aishetu spent over 20 years in finance and investment banking, and following a post grad year at Stanford decided to apply design thinking and build her own project: Bossy Beauty, what she calls a 'female empowerment company masquerading as a beauty company'. We talk about why side projects can unlock the authentic self, how to find and choose manufacturers, how to do research, and the true reason why she believes we all need to find our voice.Check out Bossy Cosmetics here.Sign up to Out of Hours here (outofhours.org) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today's guest is Benedict Evans - a venture capitalist and analyst, who has grown his own personal newsletter on tech and media to over 150,000 subscribers.  Benedict has spent over 20 years analysing mobile, digital media and technology, working in equity research, strategy and venture capital. He spent the last 6 years working for the Silicon Valley venture fund Andreessen Horowitz, famous for their high conviction investing - having invested in some of the best known companies of our time: Oculus, Buzzfeed, Medium, Pinterest, Slack and Airbnb to name a few. He’s now back in London, working as venture partner at company builder Entrepreneur First, as well as at Mosaic Ventures. His side project is his weekly newsletter - all about tech and media, selecting what he calls “the 10-20 pieces of news that actually matter” and explaining why they matter. It launched in 2013, and now has over 150,000 subscribers. We talk about why side projects can help you with job interviews, the future bundling and unbundling of media, his golden rules for posting online and why even he can get imposter syndrome sending out his newsletter.Sign up to Out of Hours here: outofhours.orgSign up to the newsletter here: ben-evans.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today's guest is Valentina Milanova - the founder and CEO of the female healthcare company Daye. Valentina set up Daye following a history of reading research papers at school on female health. The catalyst was when she discovered that industrial hemp could both make better more sustainable tampons, and be used as pain relief. She set up Daye out of hours, making prototypes herself at home, before finally deciding to quit her job. 180 investor meetings later, she received 5.5 million dollars in funding from some of the best venture capitalists in the world. We talk about how to do a good pitch, how to build credibility, how to build a prototype, how to do customer research and how it is being a sole founder. Check out Daye here, and join us to build your own side project here. To get £5 off your first pack use this code: OOHxDaye Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out Of Hours (outofhours.org) - getting you from idea to reality. Today's guest is Charlie Dark - the poet, writer and movement maker on a mission to build movements, not just communities.Charlie set up Run Dem Crew to get more of his DJ friends healthy - and years later it has become an international organisation, changed the running scene forever, and transformed many people's lives.We talk about why you should build movements not communities, why you need to use your platform to be anti-racist, how to be honest with yourself about what you want to achieve and when to get other people involved in your idea.Check out Run Dem Crew here, and join us at Out of Hours here.(Music by Linden Jay.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today's guest is Check Warner - the venture capitalist on a mission to make the industry more diverse.Check set up Diversity VC as a response to the homogeneity she saw in the industry, and just a few years later set up her own fund Ada Ventures - focused on surfacing outlier founders and untapped industries.We talk about time management, finding your personal mission and how Diversity VC got started.Check out Ada Ventures here, and take a look at Out of Hours here. Music by Linden Jay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today on the podcast we have Earl of East: a creative business started by couple Niko & Paul in London. Started initially as a simple creative outlet from their jobs in advertising - it’s since bloomed into a business with 3 stores and international acclaim. They sell their own cult fragrance and candle range as well as a curated selection of design-led products from local makers. It was founded in 2014 as a small market stall in Hackney. In 2017, just three years later, they had launched three shops.… all whilst still being a side project. We talked about the inspiration behind it, how much it cost to set up, the importance of a vision, when to go full time and why starting on the side was the best thing they ever did. Music by Linden Jay, editing help from Nathan WebberCheck out OutofHours.org // Earlofeast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brought to you by Out of Hours - the place to go for all things side projects. Sign up to our newsletter here.If you enjoy this episode, consider buying me a coffee to show your support! ☕️ We currently make a loss on the show and your support means the world!Today's guest is Gregory Boyle, the founder of Homeboy Industries - the largest gang rehabilitation program on the planet. In the wake of the 1992 LA riots, he started a small project: called Jobs for a Future - a way of helping rival gang members find employment. The success of this project led to Homeboy Industries is now the largest and most successful gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.He famously looks to serve those who ‘want help’ not those who ‘need help’ - supporting 15,000 men and women a year - through initiatives like tattoo removal, therapy, work readiness, and legal assistance, and job training in one of their many businesses.He’s also written two books - including the New York times best seller Tattoos on the Heart.We talked about radical kinship, how to maintain compassion over judgement, what he thinks causes police brutality and why you shouldn't focus on what impact you’re going to have on the world.Check out OutofHours.org or check out Homeboy Industries and donate here: https://homeboyindustries.org/Music by Linden Jay Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.