117: Developing Confidence, Strength and Grit with Armoire CEO Ambika Singh

School of Self-Worth

When Armoire CEO Ambika Singh founded her clothing rental company, she had no idea how much grit she was gonna need to source.

It turns out it was a lot.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Ambika and talk about how much Armoire has grown in the nine years since she had the idea to reduce fashion waste with a rental company.

In this episode, Ambika shares openly about the challenges she had getting funding for Armoire, and the key thing that helped her source confidence and grit along the way, especially as a woman of color in a male-dominated industry.

She also shares about how parenthood changed her perspective on work and creating more balance in her life. And that while she has had to be super tenacious to get here, she still is working on not being so hard on herself.

The top learnings from this episode:

• Embracing intentionality and early influences on entrepreneurship [00:06:05]
• Building a business with mission at the core [00:09:50]
• Learning to balance ambition, parenthood, and leadership [00:17:05]
• Grit, self-worth, and the challenges of entrepreneurship [00:14:10]
• Fundraising as a woman of color in a male-dominated space [00:27:16]
• Experiencing fulfillment through impact and community [00:35:52]

Ambika Singh is the founder and CEO of Armoire, and is on the journey of a lifetime, helping to revolutionize the way women dress. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School, she works to make women’s lives a bit easier with Seattle-based startup- high-tech, high-touch company, Armoire, which offers a true “wardrobe as service” experience. Ambika has worked across diverse contexts in organizations both small and large, with roles in marketing, business development, product management, SEO and social media. She has been featured on the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list, in The Seattle Times, and was invited to speak at Amazon, Microsoft, American Express, Harvard Business School, MIT, and the UW Foster School of Business.

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• Website: www.armoire.style
• Instagram: @armoire.style, @ambikasi
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambika-singh1/

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