Favor The Kind Founder Carley Seale: It’s Never Too Late To Change Everything

East Texas native Carley Seale started a small retail store after leaving her cushy medical sales job in 2007. Today she runs six stores across Texas and Colorado and oversees 60-plus employees. The entrepreneur candidly discusses startup life, the future of retail, following your passion and the importance of thinking big. Tips and tricks: Build a business plan with a "break-even analysis" before you start anything to make sure you’re on the right track with your idea. (Listen to the podcast for her step-by-step tips!) . Your business should be profitable enough to pay yourself. If you don’t have enough profit to pocket some cash, take a serious look at your company and financial plan. You have to be adaptable in retail. The market has changed more in the past year than prior nine according to Seale. To survive, you have to be flexible in your ideas, buying habits, employee structure and more.

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Step inside the world of Flea Style — a hub for handmade, vintage and one-of-a-kind lifestyle goods from hundreds of makers and shakers — and join founder Brittany Cobb as she interviews established and budding business owners, operators and influencers about their creative companies. On each episode, Brittany and her guests kick back with a coffee or cocktail and dig into start up stories, business pitfalls, regrets, lessons learned, advice they want to share and plenty of funny stories along the way. Get ready to laugh out loud and take lots of notes!