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    Martha Keith

    Founder of Martha Brook - UK based

    Quit a senior healthcare role to build an award-winning personalised stationery brand now loved by customers worldwide.

    Martha Keith, founder of Martha Brook

    What Martha Brook does

    In 2013, Martha left a senior role in healthcare to launch Martha Brook, a personalised stationery company. She grew it from scratch into a feel-good global brand, winning Great Britain's Consumer Goods Businesswoman of the Year in 2023. A passionate champion of small businesses and the creative industries, she set up Business Secrets Club in 2024 to help other entrepreneurs, quickly building a community of over 100,000 business owners. She also speaks at events, writes about entrepreneurship, and advises businesses at every stage of growth.

    Visit Martha Brook

    Source: the company's own website and published interviews. We only publish details the founder has shared publicly.

    Superpower: Brand Building

    "Martha left a senior role to follow her passion and built a global brand."

    What a young person can learn from this

    • A real business in retail & consumer started with a specific problem, not a perfect plan.
    • Brand Building is a skill you can practise, not something you are born with.
    • How branding & marketing shows up in a real business.
    • How growth & scaling shows up in a real business.
    • How product & service development shows up in a real business.

    Try this

    Talk about it: Where would the first ten customers come from if you started this tomorrow?

    Then do it: Plan how you would sell ten of something this month, with no advertising budget.

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