S3E10: Juggling Business & Life: Fashion Entrepreneur Shahili Gomes on her Dual Roles | Shahili Gomes

Welcome to episode 10 of ‘The IKKIVI Podcast’ Season 3. In this episode we have with us Shahili Gomes Mccoy, the co-founder of The Design Collective, a multi-brand clothing store in Colombo showcasing the work of 70+ South Asian designers, as well as Creative Director at Gandhara, the famous interiors store founded by her father in Sri Lanka.  

Shahili divides her time between Sri Lanka where her businesses operate and Abu Dhabi where she lives with her lawyer husband, David and her son. Outside of work, Shahili’s twin passions are travelling and HIT. She can be found at a Barry’s Bootcamp studio most weekends.

We talk about entrepreneurship, her experience and learnings from running a business remotely, the fashion industry in Sri Lanka and the general landscape of the Sri Lankan economy. As a mother and entrepreneur she juggles the life of a modern woman and also shares with us some wise insightful ways on how she manages it all! I learnt so much from her and am excited to implement some of her ideas in the way I approach my daily life.