Welcome to the The Busi-ness Podcast.

Today I am joined by Amanda Harrington, founder of InParlour and Amanda Harrington London. Driven by skin cancer running in her family, Amanda’s mission is to provide an alternative and safe means to tanning. 

Stretched, overworked and exhausted from balancing mum-life combined with flying around the world to spray tan VIPs, contemporaries encouraged Amanda to bring out her own line of products to increase her reach… meet Amanda Harrington London. 

Eight years in the making, Amanda discusses the unmentioned length of time that launching a business can take, including the two years that it took to get out of her at-the-time role in InParlour.

Finding a reliable manufacturer who believes in what you do is a long-road. Amanda likens the search to finding a life-partner and emphasises the importance in this. She explains this was just a tiny part of the big switch from a service-based business to product.

Aiming to stand out, Amanda explains how applying a different technique to mainstream brands allowed her to build a desirable brand with results of consumers raving about her products.

Slowed-down supplied chains, forced to shut InParlour and faced with huge challenges, Amanda explains how she turned around the pandemic to work in her favour despite setbacks.

I learnt a lot speaking to Amanda and I hope you will to. 

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