Taylor Draper is the CEO and co-founder of Inherent Clothier, an online custom menswear shop that is both a personal stylist and a mental health awareness movement. Built on Taylor’s own struggles with depression, Inherent Clothier designs modern-day “suits of armor” that awaken the inner confidence to battle anxiety, overwhelm, and self-doubt.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Jim Collins
- Steve Calder Co-Owner at Informale
- Simon Sinek
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there is a lot of difficulties and I’ve failed hard so many times. But I love failing because you learn so much from it so I always welcome failure. But some of the difficulties I had was just learning how to be a good leader. I would do things like saying I instead of we, I wouldn’t give proper accolades to people because in my mind I was paying them to do that but it didn’t help build a good culture within the business. So that was one of the hardest things just learning how to be a leader and especially because I started so young; it was kind of just throwing an 18-year-old into that kind of role”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t Book by Jim Collins
Favourite Quote:
“You can’t win if you don’t play” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Recommended Online Resources:
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
- Audible – Explore the world’s largest selection of audiobook titles by bestselling authors
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be okay with your business taking a while to be successful. And when you make plans make them in six months to a year timeline instead of on the weeks. It’s just going to help look at your business success and the runtime of your business in an infinite mindset versus a finite one that’s very short”…[Listen for More]
More About Taylor Draper:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” John Ciardi
Other Quotes From the Chat with Taylor Draper:
- “this is going to sound a little bit counterintuitive but I learned how to wait and be patient. And that would have shortcut a lot of things back in the day because I always wanted results quickly and I would not give it enough time, any decision I would not give it enough time to fully play out and see the ramifications of that decision whether it was positive or negative. I would just always change things. So, one of the things that I wish I would have learned in the beginning was just patients. To make one decision and stick with it for 3 to 6 months and see exactly how it plays out . And then it was the right one it will be obvious and if not then we pivot from there.”
- “Always put your processes in place for every position in your company”
- “be organised. One of the biggest things that I’m pretty anal about is just organising all of our files, all of our data, no matter what business it is. Make sure everyone has access to it appropriately. Organisation is just a huge, huge thing that you invest in the front end and it pays off in dividends in the later end ”
- “I always try to check in with myself to notice what my capacity is”
- “it’s okay to not be okay”
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