12. My Story of Creating a £500k Jewellery Business with Jessica Rose

This week hear from me about my story. From starting at zero, to building my jewellery business, creating the London Jewellery School and Jewellers Academy to scaling to a £500k a year business. When I first started out I couldn’t have even imagined that being possible! Find out more and some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way in this week’s podcast.    EPISODE RECAP   I started my first real business back in 2008. I had never considered that you could actually be a jeweller (1:51) I wasn’t making quite enough and I was thinking about ways to diversify my income. In one course about teacher training I found that I wanted to be a teacher (4:51) The teaching business became the London Jewellery School - one of the worlds largest jewellery training centres  (6:23) Something I hadn’t considered with all of these businesses was what the day-to-day would be like. The money was coming in but I was exhausted and that was not the dream that I had (8:09) Even when things feel like a disaster, it may be pushing you in the right direction (11:14) And then I had another disaster (11:50) There were also lots of incredible things - business awards, programs, etc. (14:30) The next phase was trying to grow The Jewellery School - this was more of a challenge than getting started (17:27) Learning how to take a rest has been a process for me (18:55) I wanted to be able to reach a wider audience and I knew that online was the way to do that (20:46) There are seasons in my business where I’m having to do a lot, but I’m very mindful of it and take the time off afterwards (23:52) Nowadays I run Jewellers Academy full time (24:32) A few of the main lessons I’ve learned along the way (25:22)     RESOURCES The Jewellers Academy