S3 E12 Tskenya Frazer, Founder TSKENYA Shoes

Tskenya Frazer's business is one which is helping breakdown the barriers for LGBTQ+ fashion. It’s a gender free multi award-winning vegan footwear brand specialising in larger sized feet and has been featured in Vogue, The Economist, BBC Women's Hour, The Guardian and Drapers to name but a few. You’ll discover our guest to be a remarkable woman aged only 27 and with her purpose oozing out of every pore. She is also midst writing a book about the landscape of Black British business.

In this episode we chat about how and why TSKENYA shoes was created, market research in Starbucks, the personal challenges Tskenya has faced, juggling a side hustle with many other roles including writing her book, working for MTC, a VC for Ada Capital and carer for her mum. I ask what it will take for her to make the leap to go full time with her much talked about and respected brand, where the shortfalls are for the younger generations to run their own businesses, how the Prince's Trust literally saved her life and loads more. By the end of the episode I could see Tskenya becoming a potent leader on the level with Michelle Obama and Arianna Huffington. She is one incredible woman as you will discover.

My book recommendation: Fortune Cookie Principle ~ Bernadette Jiwa
Tskenya's book recommendations: Your Silence Will Not Protect You ~ Audre Lorde & Hunger ~ Roxanne Gay
Chocolate: Crunchie bar
Quote: 'We can choose to create of our lives an accident or adventure.' ~ Anonymous
Catch Tskenya at TSKENYA Shoes Insta: @officialtskenya Tskenya's personal insta: @tskenya