From 0 to a $1,000,000: How Ishita & Varun Built India's Biggest Personal Styling Business

🔴 Register FREE for Dress Like A Boss Babe: https://www.thestylingsummit.com/free?utm_source=youtube India's biggest virtual styling summit for working women ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What does it actually take to build something from scratch especially when the world around you has a very different plan for you? Ishita spent years trying to find her calling, through political science at Delhi University, fashion merchandising at Pearl Academy, running a luxury multi-designer store in Gurgaon, and eventually flying to London to study image consulting. Every step felt like a detour. Until she realised they were all leading to the same place. Varun Dhar came from a world of numbers, operations, and scale. When Ishita first told him what she wanted to build, he didn't fully see it. What changed his mind wasn't a pitch deck. It was watching real women walk out of sessions feeling like completely different people — more confident, more certain, more themselves. That shift in his thinking is what turned a one-woman consultancy into ISIC and Style Babe Academy a brand that has now worked with over 15,000 women across India and the globe, trained hundreds of women to become image consultants themselves, and is building towards becoming the defining name in a $4–5 billion global industry. In this first episode, Ishita and Varun sit down together to talk about all of it. The years of figuring it out. The leap during COVID. The momen