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Within the run as much as Worldwide Girls’s Day we’re highlighting a number of the inspiring feminine entrepreneurs celebrated in Small Enterprise Britain’s f:Entrepreneur #IAlso100 marketing campaign, which is an annual a line-up of 100 multi-achieving girls from all around the UK.

Tigz Rice, above, is a part of the f:Entrepreneur marketing campaign, and #IAlso100 record this 12 months, and tells us extra about her journey. 

1.   Inform us about Tigz Rice

I’m an empowerment photographer primarily based in Welwyn Backyard Metropolis, Hertfordshire and I curate photographic experiences that assist others reconnect with their our bodies and really feel assured and unapologetically current in each their private {and professional} adventures. Combining luxurious editorial images with my signature model of industry-leading retouching, my mission is to stage up my shoppers’ digital visibility and curate their legacy with genuine photos that present the world their ‘why’.

2.   When did you set the corporate up an what was the considering behind it?

I initially arrange as a sole dealer in 2009, having graduated from college with a level in Illustration. We have been simply hitting the height of a recession and jobs have been few and much between, so I knew that if I needed to do one thing significant with my creativity at that time. Organising as self-employed and dealing on changing into seen on-line was one of the best ways to get the ball rolling. But in addition, having spent most of my teenage years working part-time weekend jobs, it was a ravishing perception into the best way enterprise funds work. I shortly realised that if I ran my very own enterprise, I’d be getting a a lot greater piece of the pie. Initially, most of my initiatives and commissions have been illustration primarily based, however a pure aptitude for images quickly took over, and by 2013 I used to be predominantly working as a photographer. In 2018, after gaining a global status and consumer base, I used to be given the chance to publish my award-winning e-book ‘Strip Tease’ that includes my burlesque images, which I printed with  Working Class Publishing, and this was the key catalyst in switching to a restricted firm.

3.   What merchandise/companies do you produce?

I’m a fairly entrepreneurial human so there’s fairly a couple of income streams that my model gives. I’m finest identified for my empowering images experiences, which may embrace private branding photoshoots, portrait classes and boudoir makeover classes. I additionally run Inventive Play Days, the place I produce a collection of styled shoot occasions every year for photographers to get out of their consolation zones and have a go at photographing one thing fully totally different.

On prime of that, I additionally supply mentoring and tuition in all issues images: whether or not that’s one-to-one classes for people, establishing finest apply workflows for company images departments, or upskilling your whole media division on Adobe software program. And if that wasn’t sufficient, I additionally supply a variety of prints that sit alongside my e-book in my on-line retailer.

4.   What do you take pleasure in most about being your individual boss?

There are such a lot of causes I like being my very own boss, however on the very prime of the record is having full management over my working hours, the place I’ve designed myself a schedule that works finest for my life-style. Certainly one of my favorite elements of my schedule is that I don’t work Monday mornings, so as a substitute of battling the inbox at 9am you’ll discover me doing a morning health club session adopted by a Japanese language class. I often find yourself working one night per week anyway, so my time is balanced, plus I get to begin to week doing one thing that I actually stay up for!

5.   What recommendation would you give different girls desirous about establishing their very own enterprise?

There is no such thing as a higher feeling on the earth than figuring out that one thing you probably did, mentioned, invented or improved, is making a distinction on the earth. Be the change you need and have to see. It’s time to create your legacy.

6. Sum up your small business in three phrases.

Empowering, Genuine, Inventive.

7. What different areas of your life do you apply your entrepreneurial ability to? 

To be fully sincere, I’m unsure my entrepreneurial mindset ever actually switches off. Each time I choose up a brand new interest or ability, in some way it finally ends up changing into monetised. Take, for instance, our family recipes, that are tailor-made to help a wide range of household allergy symptoms. These are at present typed up in an Indesign doc midway to changing into a self-published cook dinner e-book. Or my Japanese classes, which was a lockdown venture that has since helped me develop enterprise relationships internationally. I can’t even say my health club membership, as a result of even that has been re-negotiated!

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