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

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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 th...

Highlights

Nicola Kilner shares how DECIEM grew from an unconventional startup into a global company, and why work-life balance, culture, leadership, and self-awareness must evolve as a business and its people grow.
05:45
Energy that stays with you
09:30
Fail cheaply and keep trying
13:11
A work family
17:40
Culture is built beyond the workplace
22:29
Balance changes with your life
30:52
Great leaders know what they are not good at

Chapters

From corporate experience to entrepreneurship
00:00
The unconventional design of DECIEM
06:25
Belonging, intensity, and the early team
13:37
Adapting work and leadership as the company grows
20:47
Scaling through self-awareness and complementary talent
28:40

Transcript

Steven Bartlett: As a founder of building a business. When I was in my early 20s, I think I always had a deep sense of imposter syndrome. Because there was something that I wasn't good at. And that thing was finances. Finance and understanding your financi...