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Nic Gaviria: entrepreneur and Binge Free Bestie founder on winning the opportunity to be mentored by Steven Bartlett · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Bartlett is an entrepreneur, Dragon's Den, investor, host of
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  Speaker 2: the UK's biggest podcast, and now the mentor to christ
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  Speaker 2: Church businesswoman and counselor Nick Garby Rea. Nick was selected
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  Speaker 2: from sixteen thousand entries to be named winner of the
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Bartlett stand Store Challenge. So the win gives her
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars in prize money and the mentorship
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  Speaker 2: of Bartlett. Her win was for her creation Binge Free
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  Speaker 2: Bestie and Nick joins me now to tell me all
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Nick, Morning Francesca.
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  Speaker 2: What is the reaction to all this being picked as
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  Speaker 2: the winner of the stands Store Challenge? I mean, beating
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  Speaker 2: sixteen thousand creators from around the world is pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, it's been a totally surreal past few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't totally sunk in yet. There's been lots of
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  Speaker 3: the cries walking down at the beach just trying to
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  Speaker 3: come to terms with foot all. But it's finally settling in,
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  Speaker 3: feeling very very grateful. But yeah, unreal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Stephen Bartlett has been singing your praises on
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  Speaker 2: the most popular podcast in the UK. It's got fifty
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  Speaker 2: million monthly listeners.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Does that feel real?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, honestly it doesn't. But I'm just rolling with it.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, I saw this competition pop up as
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  Speaker 3: an ad or my social media and I thought, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I could win that. I just had this
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  Speaker 3: gut feeling that what I am doing in the world
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  Speaker 3: might be something he might get behind, and so I
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  Speaker 3: just went all in through my hat in the ring
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  Speaker 3: and Yeah, he recognized it. It's been extremely validating.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about Binge Free Bestie and why you created it.
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  Speaker 3: So Binge Free Bestie, It's yes, it's a business, but
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's really a movement. It's like that I'm
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  Speaker 3: creating very very impact driven. It's heart led and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's really deeply personal because what I'm doing is I
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  Speaker 3: have created an online community for women and it's all
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  Speaker 3: about helping them to heal their relationship with food and
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  Speaker 3: their bodies without having to go on another diet. Because
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  Speaker 3: that is something that I've struggled all throughout my twenties.
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  Speaker 3: I had beene eating disorder. Did every diet under the sun.
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  Speaker 3: I've been every shape and size and I just felt
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  Speaker 3: like I was broken, there was something wrong with me.
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  Speaker 3: So what I've created is I've taken my lived experience
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  Speaker 3: with recovery and then I've wrapped it up with all
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  Speaker 3: of my qualifications and I've created a bench free bestie.
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  Speaker 3: So it's giving women this roadmap, real tools that actually work,
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  Speaker 3: and giving them a safe space to know, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: actually aren't broken and there is a way to find
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  Speaker 3: peace and freedom with food.
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  Speaker 2: How common a binge eating disorders?
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  Speaker 3: They're actually really super common. In fact, binge eating disorder
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  Speaker 3: is the most common eating disorder of all of them.
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  Speaker 3: So about one in five women and students experience binge
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  Speaker 3: eating disorder. Most of us maybe won't put that label
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  Speaker 3: on it. We might say that we're emotional eaters or overeaters.
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  Speaker 3: So it is very very common.
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  Speaker 2: Are they good treatment and support options in New Zealand?
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  Speaker 3: Well, to be frank and in my own personal experience,
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe so. As I said, I've really been
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  Speaker 3: in the trenches of that myself, and when I was
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  Speaker 3: looking for support, it was very hard to find anything
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  Speaker 3: that really resonated with me that wasn't like overly clinical.
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  Speaker 3: Everything that I tried was very much that old kind
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  Speaker 3: of you know, all you need to do is eat
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  Speaker 3: less and move more. But I already tried all of
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  Speaker 3: that for years and I was still stuck. So all
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to do at ben Free Bestie is bring
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  Speaker 3: those evidence based tools, but I'm doing it in a
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  Speaker 3: really approachable way. I'm really warm, relatable, down to earth
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, just creating a safe space.
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  Speaker 2: What was it do you think about you and your
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  Speaker 2: business that set you apart from the others?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can only guess, but I think one thing
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  Speaker 3: that I've heard Stephen talk about a lot is that
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  Speaker 3: he wants to support entrepreneurs who are impact driven. They
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  Speaker 3: have a purpose that they're leading from their heart, they're
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  Speaker 3: leading from their passion. So I think when I went
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  Speaker 3: into that challenge, I really honed in on that, and
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure that he saw me, not
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  Speaker 3: just the business, but me, so I shared a lot
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  Speaker 3: of my story. I really made sure that I was
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  Speaker 3: really bold and authentic and made sure that he got
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  Speaker 3: on board with my vision. Really, and that's my goal
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  Speaker 3: moving forward, is how can I get someone like Steven
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  Speaker 3: to really see the value and what I'm creating.
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  Speaker 2: So what does the funding mean for you in your business?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, at the moment, what I do is
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  Speaker 3: I work full time as an acc trauma therapy. That's
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  Speaker 3: my bread and butter. I work long days. It's pretty
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  Speaker 3: hard work, Benfrey Best. There has been my passion project
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  Speaker 3: on the side. But now that I've got this funding,
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  Speaker 3: it's just going to give me some breathing room. Really,
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  Speaker 3: it gives me that space to think about, well, how
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  Speaker 3: do I want to invest my time and my energy.
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  Speaker 3: What can I do to look after myself a little
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  Speaker 3: bit better. Oh, I'm a little bit burned out. I'll admit.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy to kind of float a few different
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  Speaker 3: things at once. So it's just a bit more head space,
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  Speaker 3: more opportunity, and obviously connecting with someone like Stephen, I'm
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  Speaker 3: very curious what he's going to suggest, what he's going
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  Speaker 3: to like, I'm going in the interpect's brains.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, how does the mentoring work?
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  Speaker 3: So I actually don't have all the info yet, which
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  Speaker 3: is keeping me on the edge of my seat, But
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  Speaker 3: as far as I know, I'm flying to LA sometime
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  Speaker 3: in the next few months. Dates the TVC, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: be off to LA and I'll be spending time with
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  Speaker 3: him one on one, getting some mentoring sessions. Obviously, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to really get him on board and see if
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  Speaker 3: I can make this a long term relationship. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm also going behind the scenes of divers CEO, which
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  Speaker 3: is going to be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. So what's the goal? Where do you hope
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  Speaker 2: you can take this with the supportion exposure this has
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  Speaker 2: given you.
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  Speaker 3: So I've always had big dreams anyway. I always felt
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  Speaker 3: like I could create anything I wanted as long as
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  Speaker 3: I'm really consistent and I'm working hard, and I think
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  Speaker 3: I would have been able to achieve a lot on
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  Speaker 3: my own anyway. But with this, you know, this powerhouse
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  Speaker 3: guy stand beside me, the funding and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: I want to take Bingeree Besty global. I want this
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  Speaker 3: to be the go to platform for women who are
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  Speaker 3: struggling with binge eating or body image. At the moment,
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  Speaker 3: I've already developed a signature group coaching program, so I've
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  Speaker 3: reready got all that down, but just want to expand
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  Speaker 3: and make it more accessible, thinking about maybe an app
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  Speaker 3: or something something cool like that. Run retreats around the
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  Speaker 3: world events, who knows what it's possible. Really good on you.
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  Speaker 2: I love the way you're thinking big about it. Nick,
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  Speaker 2: It's been really nice to talk to you. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for your time this morning. Nick Gabarea there
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  Speaker 2: from Binge Free Bestie.
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