Most Replayed Moment: A Guilt-Free Way to Handle Work and Life
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Most Replayed Moment: A Guilt-Free Way to Handle Work and Life

B1IntermediateSeptember 25, 202632 min

What if the right work-life balance looks completely different at every stage of your life? Nicola Kilner is the Co-Founder and CEO of DECIEM, the company behind The Ordinary, one of the world’s most disruptive and successful beauty brands. In this moment, Nicola Kilner reveals what the earliest days of building DECIEM really looked like, why the traditional rules of work-life balance didn’t always apply, and how an intense startup culture helped shape the company it became. She also explains why knowing exactly what you’re not...

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I'm Shannon Maldonado and I'm the owner of Yowie. My name is Schenkelarten and I'm a customer and I'm a specialist for the company. My name is Shopify, and Shopify is a platform that I've tested with a lot of people. I'm here for you to find out what you think.

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All tools available for the use of your products are available on the web, so you can find them on the dashboard. Start a new course in Shopify.com. When I sit down with CEOs, founders and working parents on this podcast, one thing that comes

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up again and again is the more you have to juggle, the more important it is that home and shopping for it isn't adding to that load. This moments episode is sponsored by Wayfair who understand that the spaces around us should support how we live. Here is Nicola Kilner talking about some of the systems that she's built to make working home fit together better.

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