I Love Ugly Audio Show

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Welcome to the I Love Ugly Audio Show my names Valentin Ozich, Creative Director and Founder of I Love Ugly. On this episode we sit down with New Zealand Entrepreneur Robett Hollis. For those that are unfamiliar with Robett’s background, he is an Ex-Professional National Champion Snowboarder, a Multi-Exit Entrepreneur, Author, FORTUNE 100 Content Consultant, Global Speaker, and was named as one of the Top 3 Most Influential New Zealanders on LinkedIn. After exiting his portfolio of companies, Robett’s new mission is to inspire more people to say #YesToSuccess and help destroy New Zealand’s Tall Poppy Syndrome. In 2018 he helped launch a 50 million dollar initiative to help more growing companies win in business. In this episode, we dive deep and discuss how and why he got into business, what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur, why failure is an important learning tool, and a few tips, tricks and routines that Robett uses that could help you on your path to success. Like all my guests, I like to go deep and extract as much value as I can, and this episode is no different. There’s some golden nuggets in here that I’m sure you can translate to using in your own lives. Enjoy the episode.

Welcome to the I Love Ugly Audio Show my names Valentin Ozich Creative Director and Founder of I Love Ugly. It's been a little while since we've put out any articles or podcasts and there's a reason for it: We just didn't feel like it. It's a shit reason but it's the truth.

Unfortunately, using our feelings as the ultimate measure for whether or not we should do something, isn't a wise move. If we obeyed every feeling we've ever had, we'd be in a pretty terrible state. Yes, feelings are useful as warning signs and indicators that help guide us through life. But the key is to listen and observe them, but not necessarily obey them every time they speak.

This podcast explores the ups and downs of feelings and why you cannot always rely on them. It is only an 18 minute listen, so get stuck in or save it for later and, when you're done, jump in the comments/reviews and let us know your thoughts.

Enjoy the episode.

On this episode, our Digital Director Will Munro and Creative Director/Founder Valentin Ozich dive into an in-depth discussion around the importance of goal setting for the start of the New Year and how to kick start your 2020 off in the right direction. They cover topics ranging from how to set your goals, their own daily morning routines, the power of habits, and how to harness and control your thoughts. We know that setting goals big or small, can be daunting and unfamiliar to a lot of people, so we wanted to record this discussion in the hopes that it would give you some clarity around the importance of it and how to make a start, and also give you an inside look into our own goals, routines and habits. We want to help you identify and define what your ‘why’ is for 2020. Because the stronger your ‘why’ the easier your ‘how’ becomes. Now grab some paper and a get pen because you’re going to need it for this one. Enjoy the episode.

Welcome to the I Love Ugly Audio Show my names Valentin Ozich Creative Director and Founder of I Love Ugly.

On this episode, we sit down with Auckland based filmmaker, Fraser Grut. For those that are unfamiliar with Frasers work, he runs a movement called '10,000 Dreams', where every single day for 10,000 days (27 years), he films a different person answering the question - "What’s your dream?". He began this project in 2016 and will finish it in 2044 at age 50. His goal, is to build a culture around dreams that inspires people to pursue them. Frasers life mission is one of the most ambitious and inspiring projects we have come across.

In this episode we go into the backstory about why he started this project, how he's managed to film the dreams of high profile celebrities like Mark Cuban, Chris Hadfield and many more, and lastly the importance of why everyone needs to dream big and to pursue it. This episode is sure to help inspire your new year ambitious.

Enjoy.

To our loyal followers,

2019 was one hell of a year. We released 12 collections. Over 300 different garments. 19 podcast episodes. 8 articles on how to be a better person. Over 500 individual Instagram posts. A 10th-anniversary collection. An art collection. A personal development art print collection. Over 45 videos. And serviced 1000s of different people.

This business is nonstop. The creative expectation and innovation required to stay afloat is relentless. To know people still have love for what we do 10 years after starting this brand from our founder’s bedroom is humbling. It inspires us to keep on doing what we are doing, but on the same token, it forces us to keep raising the bar. Every day. April 2017 this thing nearly folded. December 2019 we are stronger than ever.

We aim to be 1% better every single day because we know that’s the only way moving forward.

Thank you for your support this year. Thank you for spending your hard-earned money with us. For trusting us. For telling other people about us. For consuming our content. We know there are a million other options out there. It means the world to us. Have a great Christmas and a safe new year and see you all in 2020.

From the team at I Love Ugly.

A lot of people asked for it, so we did it. In this episode, our digital director Will goes deep with our Creative Director V on the inner workings of how our clothing collections are put together.

From the budgets and range planning all the way to marketing. This gives you an insight into the depths we go to put each garment together, which you probably weren't aware of. From how we chose the fabrics, how we pick the trends, how we decide which garments to cut in the sampling stage, and how we bring the clothes to market.

For all those in the industry or those that are interested in the behind the scenes of how a fashion brand works, you will find a lot of value and enjoyment in this episode. Enjoy. 

This episode is designed for those that are having a shitty day. We all have them, but unfortunately, not all of us have the tools and tactics to get out of them. This is based off an article I wrote a few weeks back which got some great feedback. I was having a really tough week and an especially bad day when I wrote this, which makes it that much more real. I would highly recommend doing the tasks to get the most out of it.

Heres the link to the article: https://www.iloveugly.co.nz/blogs/articles/shit-day

On this episode I sit down with motivational speaker and personal development specialist, Dr Paul Wood.