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Fran Millar

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“Yeah, I don't do, I have a private Instagram and I do, I'm on Twitter, but I don't really use it very often. Rubbish with Link”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Took my sister in law to Dubai for her 40th birthday with my best mate. We stayed on the palm. We had an amazing time. I've sort of took my brother back to Hong Kong for his 40th. I take my friends on holidays. I just go and do stuff with the people. I love experiences. I spend my money on experiences, going and doing stuff, seeing stuff, but always with the people I love. Another my mates can afford to go to the hotels I go to. So I'm always like, well, I'll just pay because I don't want to stay in a rubbish hotel, so.”
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“Money becomes irrelevant, though, right? The money is not the money is just a great tool Helping my friends and family for doing cool stuff with people, for having experiences, I spend all the money I earn doing stuff with the people I love.”
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“So bad. But now I wouldn't want that list now. But it was just, it was that really interesting, like, oh, okay, we want totally different things. And I didn't have partner. I didn't have kids. I didn't have a nice house anywhere. I was like, I wanted the universe. Do you know what I mean? I want to go over there and do something massive.”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were quite not. I mean, when my dad was in the RAF So to begin with middle class, but then when he left to go to Hong Kong, he went into civil aviation in kind of the glory years of the expats. So definitely very, very lucky that I got business class travel everywhere. Yeah, so it was pretty next level, yeah.”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're listening. I want a yacht and a chair. I want to have loads of money. Yeah, I was literally, I had this like really materialistic list about wanting to be like successful in a global sensation and have all this money and all this. 23, 22, 23”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think when I was a kid, I was very, I remember actually when I set my agency out, my best mate and I set it up together and we got a coach. And we were about 22, 23. And the coach was like, right, go off into separate rooms and write out where you want to be in 10 years' time and then come back in and read them to each other. And we were best mates. We'd lived together for like three or four years, set a business up together. He was dating my best friend. We came back in and he, and we had them both written on a piece of paper holding from each other. And he was like, right, I want to be running a successful business earning a Good salary. I want to be living in a nice house with a wife and three children and I want to be healthy and happy. And I was like, oh fuck.”
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“Don't get me wrong, I used to have five year plans, but they're all hilarious when I go back and look at my five-year plans. I'm like, oh, I love how ambitious I was. Where's that yach”
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“I would believe you. Know what the future holds, and I don't really mind. I don't mind. As long as my family and friends are healthy and happy And as long as actually that's all that matters, as long as my friends and family are happy and healthy, then I'm pretty cool with whatever the world throws at me. I'm sure it will be a laugh. It'll be fun”
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“Great. This is good because I think a lot of people would get that kind of diagnosis and be like, right shit, what do I need to do differently? And I didn't have anything that I thought, no, I want to, I don't want to change. But interestingly, my job has now changed. And I think deep down, the reason I had the chairman conversation, the reason I was willing to say yes to this opportunity at Bell Staff is had I maybe not had that incident and had all of that associated thinking and sort of bit of deep deep sort of soul searching, I maybe wouldn't, I maybe would have said, no, it's right, I'll stay at cycling. I just thought, you know what? Let's go and give it a try.”
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“Was like, you know what? I wouldn't change anything. I would carry on living my life the way I live it now. I wouldn't change anything. I would probably go deeper and harder in some of the things that I really enjoy because I like my job and seeing my mates. I would keep spending the money the way I spend it. I literally wouldn't change anything. And I was like, and it felt, it literally felt quite freeing. It was like.”
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“She was like, oh, yeah, no, we've never done heroin. And so she was asking all these questions. So basically I had about a year period where they weren't sure what it was. They still aren't. I still have them. And it's symptom-based. So they're like, we could do biopsies and see what it is. And I'm like, no, you're all right. Or if I ever develop symptoms, which would be, you know, sort of electric pulsing or anything like that. And I think that period was quite good for me because it, and it's probably where a lot of the positivity and the actually doing what you only get one chance thing came from because I was a bit like shit, if I have tumors growing in my brain, that's quite intense. And what does that mean for my life? Like what would I change? Like what would I do differently? And I genuinely remember being sat in my living room having everyone had gone home by this point and I sort of had had my first proper other like a two-hour MRI, which is quite intense.”
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“I had to go and like, so I went with my best mate actually and go and meet the brain surgeon. He talked us through it. And I mean, it was one of those hilarious and horrible situations all at the same time because he was sort of going through, because she works the NHS and she was like, but what else could it be if it's not tumors? What else could it be? And he was like, well, you know, have you ever been like a very heavy drug user? And we were both like, no. She was like, I was like, Lizzie, we don't need to go into this. He means hero”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he said, we've got your brain scans, we've gone through them, and we're seeing changes in your brain. And you know, when you're like, but I've never had an MRI, so how can you have, how are there changes? Anyway, long story short, I've got all of these unusual patterns in my brain, like patches that could be, they were like they could be potentially the starts of tumors. They could be just your, I know, right? And so he went through this.”
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“So, my mum had had to come up because of the concussion. I wasn't allowed to go home on my own. And I got this phone call from a brain surgeon who had been given my MRI. They looked at my MRI and they'd found all these patches in my brain. And he was like, we've found, are you? He rang me and he's like, are you with someone? And I was like, yeah. And he's like, oh, we've got, yeah. And he's like, we've got. Bedside manned.”
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“I wish and our team doctor at the time was like, because I'd got a bit of concussion. He was like, I think you should go and get a brain scan. He's very overcautious. So I went and got an MRI and they've made my mum come up because I don't have her husband. That's the one downside actually to being single is that whenever you have to have like somebody come and look after you, it's like 42 years old, but please could you come and see it, Mike?”
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“Interestingly, I had to. Would it have been three years ago? I crashed my bike and landed on my head. And I got like, I mean, for some reason, whenever I crashed my bike, I landed on either my face or my head. And I landed on my head.”
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“Yeah, we've got all of that heritage that I think we can speak to. So I think I definitely think that experiential piece will be quite a big play over the next few years.”
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“The experience, yeah, yeah, exactly. I think that is going to have to because I don't think it's ever going to be there to be making money. So I think it's going to be about adding on the experience of the brand for people, particularly for our brand. We can create an experience and a story and a narrative that other brands maybe can't. You have a 96 years old”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, God, I'm so early to it that it's, you know, but I mean, I think, like anything, I think it's accelerated what was happening anyway. Like the high streets were dying, people were moving online. I think the rapidity of that change has just been accelerated massively. So people's behavior around how they're shopping was on the cusp of quite significant change. And I think that change has flipped massively. So people are much, much happier shopping online. Even like an older generation who historically wouldn't have been, I do fundamentally believe when we all start opening up again, people are really going to want to go shopping. I think people are going to, this idea that people aren't going to go to the shops, I'm not sure I buy it because I think it's like, yeah, you want to get out. Go and do stuff. Even you might want to see Stephen.”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The design team have been doing a brilliant job over the last three years getting the product to a place that's really true to who we are as a company. And I would really love to take it to profitability and beyond. I really believe it's possible to do that. And I think, you know, we're lucky to have the backing of German to support us through what is going to be quite a significant period of transition and change. But then I think we build foundations for growth and go from there.”
2021-02-08 · The Diary of a CEO · How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, at the moment, well, the first three months in the business, I just wanted to get to know everyone there. So I did one-to-ones with everyone. I think it's really easy to kind of go into business with preconceptions of what's gone wrong and what you'd fix. And I tried, I spoke to all the kind of mentors I've worked with over the years and said, like, what would you? And they all gave me the same advice, which was speak to people, listen, don't make any rash decisions, you know, wait, get a proper plan, but give it, you know, the kind of 100 days piece. initially i was a bit like I don't need to do that and actually you just really do, you know, so I've just spent just trying to understand how it works. And the other thing is understand the industry. You know, like I literally knew nothing about the other than I buy clothes. I didn't know anything about fashion. So, yeah, so and now my plan is I, you know, as is always my ambition, I want to do the best possible job of it. I believe in Bell Staff as a brand. I think it's an incredible brand with an incredible history. I think the product is amazing.”
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“This is amazing. And it's that, isn't it? It's like I think you can burden yourself with all this responsibility and all these kind of negatives. And actually, it's like just what an opportunity. Why don't you try and flip it, try and see the world in a bit more of a positive light? And I feel like that's something I'm really working on for myself because I just think, like I say, we only get one of them. You get this one opportunity I've been very lucky. There's nothing in my life touch wood that has caused real trauma or, you know. that I feel that I would go back and change. And I think when you're halfway through, that's not a bad place to be.”
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“So rather than enjoying the joy of it, the kind of, you know, she uses the example that she's on the plane to go to her first Oprah appearance. And she's like, I spent the entire plane journey there worrying the plane was going to crash. Then I spent the whole car journey there worrying that I was going to make a mistake on the show or say something stupid. Then I spent the whole time in the green room wearing I was wearing the wrong outfit. And at no point did I stop and think I'm going on Oprah”
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“Yeah, it's like that Mark Twain quote, isn't it? It's like there's a men will spend their whole lives worrying about stuff that's never actually going to happen. That's what worries because you're worrying about something that hasn't even happened yet. Or that sort of, there's a brilliant Brene Brown podcast where she talks about foreboding joy. And it's this idea that something really exciting is happening. But all you're thinking about is shit, what if it goes wrong?”
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“We don't hang out, but I just say to them and say, Thank you so much for the opportunity. This is incredible because I hadn't spoken to him about it at all. It was all via sort of, you know, the chairman in the business. And he just replied and said, Fran, the only thing I can ask you to do is your best. You know, when you're like, the freedom of that, and that's what Dave V's always been like. You can just do your best, Fran. You can't, there's nothing more you can do in life. And I think if you release yourself of expectations and what's the standard you've got, and this is, don't get me wrong, I did not feel like this for the last 10, 15 years. This has been in the last probably two years that I started to realize, you know what, what is the worst that's going to happen? Like, what's the worst case scenario here? Bellstar folds, let's say, or when I was in the site team, we didn't win the biggest bite race or, you know, whatever, as long as no one's dying, as long as nothing's, you know, that as long as people are okay, the people are okay. I'm kind of all right with it, you know?”
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“And I just feel very lucky. And yeah, there are big challenges and Brexit at the moment's bonkers and all our shops are shut because of COVID and I'm having to meet and work with new people. But I wouldn't change it for the world. I think if you can, and this is where Steve Peters has been so powerful because he's like, it's a bit about it not defining you. Just try your best. And that was, you know what? Jim Racklef actually texted me. I text him to say thank you very much for the opportunity. We're not friends. We don't like hanging out.”
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“I'm so lucky, Stephen. That's the thing. I think someone, you know, an incredibly successful man bought a business three years ago and has said to me, it's not working very well. I really like what I've seen you do in the two years I've been exposed to. Could you go and run it for me? It's like, yes, y'all go and do that. What a great opportunity.”
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“So, I don't think you can follow in someone else's footsteps, but I do think it's like a bit like the beginning where I was like, you know, just be yourself. Be nice to people. Be approachable. Take the opportunities when they're given to you. Recognize that sometimes things are scary and you're going to have to do it scared. And actually change is sometimes the best thing that can happen to you. And, you know, all those things that you read in clich ⁇ memes on Instagram, they're pretty much true. You know what I mean? And you've just got to take that approach in life because you're not going to get another one.”
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“So hard, isn't it, Stephen? Because you can't follow in someone's footsteps Impossible. And that's the thing I think that people, you know, I would say you can't. You can have your own footsteps and you can go into your own thing. And Jesus, if someone had said to me at 25, this is the career path you're going to follow. I'd been like, there's just no way, there's no way I could tell someone how they're going to do that because it's bonkers. I explained to people like, oh, you know, tell me a bit about your background. And I hear myself saying it. And I'm like, that's bonkers”
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“Know what? I wouldn't have fun because I think I feel. Exceptionally blessed. I feel really, I love what I do. I've loved the journey I've been on, like all the mistakes I've made. And like I said at the beginning, you know, I've been very, very lucky to be allowed to make all kinds of mistakes and them not follow me around. It's like I've been kind of carried and supported and encouraged to fail and to try and do stuff that other people just wouldn't have got the chance to do. So I'd be like, no, go for it. Like don't don't worry about it. Like don't worry about fucking up. Don't worry about making mistakes. Let's get on with it.”
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“But then I was a bit like, oh crap, I've got to do my job as well. And I sort of feel like I'm not great at doing having two or three focuses. I can go at one thing and be brilliant at it. But if I start adding in layers of complexity, like I can stay on top of my health, I can stay on top of my fitness, but I can't once I start going down there right, I'm going to get super lean. I find it hard to manage my weight. Do you know what I mean? So I don't know whether there's obsession or whether it's just myopic, I'm myopic.”
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“Don't like compromising. Yeah, I probably am obsessive makes it sound a bit like it's I'm not in control of it. In control, I'm aware of what I'm doing, but it's a bit like, so I'm, we were talking about having a peloton and, you know, I kind of feel if I'm going to go all in on my fitness and my health and get lean and everything. For my 40th, I got like down to 65 kilos. I was like a boss. And I was like all over it.”
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“I was in my head, my ego was going, I would have been amazing at it. I'd have been like the boss. No, because I don't think you can. I'm a feminist. I'm absolutely passionate about equality. I'm passionate about women's ability. Women can do anything that men can do and should have the opportunity to do that. I equally don't think it's possible to have it all. I really don't. I don't think you can have, and I know there are women who do and hats off to them. I think you read about these women in the city who've got like five kids and they're CEOs and it's like fair play to you, but I couldn't do that I would feel constantly compromising and I don't like compromise.”
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“No, and I'm fascinated by it because I feel very blessed because of it. Like I say, I think it's given me a freedom that a lot of people don't have.”
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“I'd been with the guy for like, I don't know, seven years. And I remember like moving into how we bought a house together in Shepherd's Bush and we moved into the house. And I remember like vividly putting the key in the door, turning the lock and thinking, I don't want this. Like I don't want this. I loved him to bits. He was an amazing guy. But I was like, I don't want this kind of, I don't want to be in a normal life with a normal husband and a house and kids. And I just didn't want it. I wanted something different. I've got a tattoo that says a life less ordinary. I just wanted to just do it differently. And I don't know where that came from, but I've had it my whole life. That kind of, I just don't just didn't feel the need to conform to society's kind of pillars of, okay, you go to university and then you're going to get a job and then you're going to meet a guy and then you're going to get married. Then you're going to have kids. I was always like, I'm not interested.”
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“The way I feel Yeah, no. But it's why I don't think I need a companion because I already have, I get so fulfilled from my job. I get so much from that and so much from kind of working in and around people and having that kind of, I've got the community of my friends and the community of my work. And I think those two things I find very fulfilling. So the idea of having a companion or children or anything else in the mix of that. Didn't really ever appeal to me in interest. I mean, I was engaged to be married when my brother got served his band, so 2004.”
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“I know that sounds ridiculous, but I think that always played quite a big part for me. That I was like, the responsibility of it, the constantly having to worry about it, the constant, all of my female friends who have kids, they live in a state of almost permanent anxiety because they worry about their kids all the time in a love way, you know, it's like that wrong love you have for a And I don't think I ever, I've never felt that I wanted that in my life and ever felt that I needed it and I never felt that I wanted it. I always felt quite like, no, I'm good. I've got the right amount of love going on in my life. I don't want that additional responsibility and burden in many ways of having something that. Always ever present and would cause me, I think, quite a lot of anxiety.”
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“And that love always used to scare me a little bit, you know, not from her, but I used to think like I've got dogs and I worry about my dogs and I've got like nine godchildren. I've got two nephews and a niece. And the minute they get on a plane or they go, I'm panicking like, what if the plane crashes? What if they die? It's like I can't handle it. And I'm like, Jesus, if I'd have had my own kids, that would have, I wouldn't have been able to handle that amount of love.”
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“I think it probably plays a role in my view of having kids because my mum was adopted. So, my mum literally didn't know who her mum and dad was. She was kind of picked out of an orphanage by my grandparents and never had until she had Dave at I had never met anyone who looked like her. You know, like we all, you know, connect to our families because we've got similar features, whatever. She'd never had that. And so my mum loves my brother and I with a kind of wonderfully oppressive kind of dominant. And it's, you know, she just loves us with everything that she's got because we're for a whole host of reasons, but also I think because we're the only physical, you know, sort of biological connection she's ever had.”
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“And I've never felt the need for companionship of one other person. Do you see what I mean? Like I say, my tribe is very important to me. And I think that's potentially biological. So I think I'm lucky because I do, I have friends who, you know, they would, they're desperate to meet someone. They're desperate to have children. They're desperate to move on to that bit of their life. And I've just never felt like that. And I feel very lucky because of that because I think if I'd have felt like that, my whole life would be very different.”
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“Well, it's interesting though. So one, I'm 42 now, and the pressure drops away because I think you get to the point where people think it's rude to ask you if you're going to have kids because they're like, can you still have kids? Okay, right, fine. You get to that age, right? But certainly all through my 30s, when you're going to settle down, do you not want to have children? And I, and I feel very, very lucky that I feel the way I do. I've never really had a biological clock that's ticked ever.”
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“The ICI have incredibly meaningful relationships and incredible connections. I just don't think that added bit of a companion for me right now, you know, I'm not saying not forever, but I'm not sure that bit for me is something that I need. And I think that it's that there's a difference there because I do agree with you. I think you absolutely have to have connection. The human condition is to feel connected, to feel part of something, to feel sort of that you'll have a purpose within your community. And I think having your own community and having your own tribe is crucial. I don't think that needs to be through companionship with one other human being.”
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“Having small talk, slightly awkward, with kind of one end game. Do you know what I mean? And it's like, and I'll know within two minutes if that end game's happening. And I'm like, I don't really need to full talk. Yeah, we don't need to dress this up So, yeah, no, I just, yeah, it just never, yeah, I did a little bit, but it's not, I'm not looking for that. And I think if I'm looking, if I wanted, if I wanted to get married, if I wanted to get into a relationship, I could. I'm not adverse to it, but I'm just not out seeking it. And I think you get what you look for, right?”
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“Here and there, but it's like kill me, you know Kill me now, you know, that kind of small talk. Oh, God, it's like my idea of hell on earth going and meeting a stranger.”
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“No, I feel like I should because it would make you all feel better. About five or six years ago, because everyone was on at me all the time, I'd like did a bit of dating, did some internet, you know, used some apps, everything else. I was like, why am I doing this? I'm doing this because society wants me to do this. I'm doing this because my mates want me to do this. It's bullshit. If it's right, if it's right, it'll come if it's not, it won't.”
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“Doesn't motivate me. I know that sounds awful. I'm not motivated to have somebody in my life. I'm not motivated to be like, right, I want a partner. I want that companionship. You know, when I arrived, we were chatting about how this environment that we're all living in, actually, I love being on my own. I'm very happy in my own company. I'm very passionate about what I do. And I think that fulfills the space that maybe other people have other passions for, right? And so yeah, it's never been a goal of mine. I've never dreamt of the white wedding. I've never wanted to, and there's never a bit of me that sits at home and thinks, oh, I wish I had someone to sit and watch teleworth ever. It doesn't even cross my mind. And my mates are always like, do you not get lonely or do you not worry? And I'm like,”
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“And people would just go, what's the name of the work life balance? I was like, there isn't a work-life balance. My work is my life. And I make no sort of excuse for that. I love it. I'm passionate about it. I enjoy it. It's hard pleasure. It's brilliant and I like the challenge of it. And I, you know, I chose not to have kids. I don't have a partner. It's the passion point of my life is my work. And that's right. But that doesn't mean I need to be not going out and seeing my mates. It doesn't mean I need to be up until midnight tapping out emails. Do you know what I mean? I can still, I take days off. I live a normal life, but I work really, really hard.”
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“Yeah, bragged about it. Yeah. And I sort of think I get it. I get why people feel like that. And I think there's a difference between being exceptionally busy. Working all the hours God gives and thrashing yourself and all those sorts of things and working really hard with purpose. Very different And when you're working really hard with purpose and you're passionate about what you're doing and you love the people you're working with and you're enjoying this sort of striving for the achievement, there's no shame in that. For me, that's absolutely part of motivated, ambitious people. That's what you want them to feel.”
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“Exactly. Let's not go down that route. It's interesting because as you were asking me the question, I think because actually I similarly read something that you'd written about you feel a bit bad that you sort of heroed the kind of I'm working hours a day and I'm going out in”
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