E45 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)

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