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Grace Beverley

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“And then, like, so there's just so many different types of, I guess there are so many different angles to it. And as long as there's kind of a more realistic thing, as long as you don't feel weak to say that you sleep or whatever, and you also don't feel like you're being like really mean to say like you have to work hard to do well, both of those things are wrong. So like there must be a middle ground.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is an important, and I do think that people like us also have a duty to be able to share both sides, even if it's that being like, you know, like I was up till 11 last night writing a crisis plan for something. Like, you know, like you constantly have these things. And it's like.”
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“Actually, get it done. That's self care. Like, that isn't, it doesn't have to be this, that, or the other. It doesn't need to be compartmentalized into like, you know, some forms of work or self-care, some forms of self-care are like, you know, like it goes both ways. And I think that that's what's important. I think it's rather than choosing one or the other. It's just real. It's like being realistic and being, you know, you don't always need to be disarmingly like, I've had a bad day today because I also feel in the same way like I can't be asked to do that the whole time. When I've had a bad day, I don't instantly think like, ah, I will get the reward from being vulnerable by sharing this on social media. Like that's not my instant reaction. But at the same time.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you still, at the end of it all, you still need rescue. And yes, you're completely right. There's no glory and no kind of benefit in also perpetuating the completely the other side. Sometimes self-care is the most productive thing you can do, but also sometimes productivity is an act of It's self care to look at that project that you've been putting off for three weeks for the 50th time.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, like face masks and everything. It can be, it has to be like part of all of it. So yeah, you might work till 3 a.m. from 6 a.m. every night for a month. I would argue that that's not that possible beyond that point. Like it might be. And you might be an incredibly hard worker and, you know, like, and I perceive myself to be.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just because I'm telling you that actually, if you want to get that done, you've got to get it done. And I think that's why the whole. Reason I repositioned it rather than it's not just because as soon as you're that then you're equally as harmful in the perpetuation of like self-care culture that now has these knee-jerk reactions that's either like it's like a cult and it's like this wellness thing or it's like a waste of time there's like a middle ground like that is important for everyone but it doesn't just need to be kind of like”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know any athlete. I think what I even realised that was after I kind of went through all of this self-discovery and writing the think pieces and all of that, and then I sat down to write the productivity method and I was like, I feel like Gordon Ramsey telling someone he's like an idiot sandwich. Like I literally feel like I'm being that harsh.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're just like a human or not even like even machines can't do that. If you had a machine like working, it would go into override or if it was set on the wrong thing or if it was doing too many things at once, it would go into override. So like we don't, it's not even that we don't realize we're humans. We don't realize limits at all. We just have no boundaries. And I think that's what's important.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I now, and I think largely because of having written this book, I now see when I'm lagging. I now see when I need a rest. I now see, you know, I'm able to construct a working week that essentially is able, I'm able to be CEO at both companies and I'm able to do all my work and I'm able to do my own work too that isn't just responsive to other people's work. And then I think, you know, and I'm able to culminate that in a way that is, I guess, a livable way of me working. And there have been times where it's not that. There have been times where it's, you know, like hell to leather and doing everything possible, but that's a needs-must amount of time. That is not representative of what hard work looks like and then being able to recognize that within myself and say like, that's okay. Like you're not weak because you have to sleep. Like you're not weak because you have to, you know, like sit back sometimes or your creativity just isn't coming out.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Actually, being able to acknowledge that and find some middle ground and find some realization that it doesn't all like it's not going to be the same for you as it is for someone else. And the same goes for hard work. And I think for me, you know,”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The acknowledgement that working hard does not mean working all the time and like having it all does not mean like doing it all and all of these various different things that actually are important to look at from ourselves as well because like as I said like I realize that actually probably I was perpetuating a lot more than I meant to and that was why I then ended up needing to perpetuate things because you know I constantly wanted to show people that I was actually working hard which actually all it gave off was This is how what hard work looks like and therefore there's you know it's probably stopping a whole generation of people who actually want to do something but see something see you know I'm not that type of person I actually don't get up in the morning and want to read like some disgustingly pouring like nonfiction book and like”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, it's also the equivalent of expecting someone like that or a marathon runner, ultra marathon runner to sprint for the whole marathon. Like it's ineffective. They're not going to win. They're also probably going to get injured. You know, there's nothing beneficial about it and we see it from a physical perspective and we completely ignore it from a mental perspective or from a work perspective. And I think that that's why it's so important to talk about especially you and me people who are essentially will be seen in some way as like What hard work looks like that results in success, or whatever it might be”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess if you look at productivity, like the definition is that you get the most amount done and the least amount of time. But that has fine, like that taken as one. And then that's multiplied. So you're getting the most amount done in the least amount of time so that you can do most amount and the least amount of time again rather than being able to just do that and move on. And fine, that's good. Like we should be, you know, we should be efficient. We should be effective. All of these things are important. But I think that.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I won't talk about specifically from that perspective. I do think it's important to talk about in terms of. Burnout as a whole. So when we, I think the same thing applies to kind of like The way that this kind of productivity, like rat race comes across now, is that you essentially need to be working as fast as you possibly can. It's not productivity at all. It's working.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's like second nature, and then you never deal with things. So I kind of decided I was like, I'm going to get like, I'm just going to have it once a week and it's just going to be literally like an offload. Then I sat in for kind of like two months, and I was like, I haven't cried yet, and I'm a crier. So I'm clearly talking about my mental health as if I'm doing an interview. And if I'm like, you know, just able to talk about it like, yeah, like I think he's important. And like this is, and it's like, this is everything that's okay to talk about. This is everything that's not. And I won't address that. And I think that that's something for me to, I guess, to deal with. And I think that the important thing is as owner of.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From Matilda, that you like have in your brain that's like, you do not get this or you do not deserve to have that compassion or whatever it might be. So I think I've had a, and I think what's so strange is that I don't know about you, but I'm able to talk about mental health really openly. literally had so i i thought it was really important for me to um i think as a business owner i think it's probably important for all i mean i think it's important for everyone but for business owners i think it's important for everyone to get therapy because you're not meant to go through that much chaos all the time. You're not meant to have three messages a day that could kill your business. And yet you do. And you're like, and then you're like, the next, like 15 minutes later, you're like, so what's that? You're fine. You get like programmed to get up again.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly, and I think that that's another reason why I really needed to look inside myself and be able to evaluate that and be able to look at why, like, why is that the case? Like, why do you feel so undeserving of the justification for having bad mental health at one time? And I've been lucky that, you know, apart from this, which was a result of specific trauma, I've generally been, you know, I've had generally good mental health and I've, you know, been able to deal with, I guess, you know, like I think a lot of the way that mental health is presented is really damaging in that, you know, people do, I've had friends who have kind of said like, oh, yeah, but, you know, I don't want to take meds for my depression or whatever. And everyone has different views on it. But it's kind of being like, well, any other chemical imbalance in your brain, you would because you'd say, like, hey, I need this to offset this or I need insulin to offset this or whatever. And yet it's like a...”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's completely different. It's like we don't get the same treatment. Like, I'll give you, you know, I'll understand that and I'll see that and I won't do that. And I'm sure there are lots of people who are the exact same.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When it was a physical symptom, like when it came to the point that I was okay, like I'm being hospitalized now. Like, this is not ideal at all. And that was the thing that made me slow down. And that was the thing that maybe, or not even slow down. I don't even think I necessarily hugely slowed down after that, but it was kind of like, okay, this is real. And this is just as like if something can manifest so physically that you're having a fucking seizure, then you probably need to take this more seriously. And that was, you know, like that was tough. That was right before my third year at university that that started. And everything up until then, like I've been really toxic mental health attitude within myself that doesn't prioritize it, that isn't kind of sees it as weakness, even though that's the last thing that I'd see, you know, in any of my friends who suffer from depression or anxiety or like whatever it might be.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Two Oh, yeah, no, I appreciate that. Um, well, as I've said, I think probably one of the reasons that I think I, you know, in that post to give context, I guess I said that I am one of the biggest advocates for people talking about their mental health. We have mental health days within the company. Like, you know, you can take days off and you can literally just take a duvet day and it could be because of your mental health, whatever it might be. And I'm the biggest advocate for that and talking about it and everything. And then as soon as it came to me, no, like that was not, it's not the same case. Like I'm not going to talk about it. I'm not going to deal with it. And it actually got to a point that I was having seizures, essentially, from something really horrible that I went to that was through that was essentially ended up giving me PTSD that presented in seizures. And obviously I was having symptoms up to the point of the seizures, but I only took it seriously.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A challenge and will also be incredibly rewarding and all of that, and most of them are. But I think there are other things that you look at, and you're like, yep, this was a challenge.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was broadcasting that, and there'll be people, I'm sure, who see me now who are like, but she, you know, did this and that. And like, yeah, sure, I work really hard. I really do. But there are some things that it's kind of like I address that. And as I said to you while I was writing the book, there were so many things that I noticed. I was like, I'm the problem here as well. I perpetuate this. How can I criticize a culture, the hustle culture that I benefit from at the same time? How can I do that? And I think that I think that that's what made me, you know, that's why I say that this book was such like a soul searching process for me because I was like, you know, what is that? Why is that? Like, is that because I need the validation? Is that because we all need the validation now? Because hard work has become so unobtainable because it has to be doing this job, that job, like everything in between also being amazing at self-care, also doing like X, Y, and Z. And I think that that's when I was kind of like, okay, this is a challenge, but it's not only a challenge. It was a silly thing to do. So it's not even like a, you know, there are things you have to do. There are crises you have to deal with and all of that that will.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is like that kind of like sums it all up in the way that that was a huge challenge, also an incredibly unwise challenge at the time. And yet why did that feel like the time I was doing it right? So that's actually a lot of what's spurred on essentially why I was writing the book because it was kind of like how can that be the epitome of hard work when that is also the epitome of Not being productive, like that's completely unproductive and not useful for anyone. You're not going to be nice with the people you deal with at the time. You have a higher chance of actually messing things up and all of that. And yet why was that the one time that I felt like truly validated for what I was doing?”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Either something going incredibly wrong or whatever. And I think that, you know, like, as I've said, work was always a coping mechanism for me. So it's always kind of like, well, if we have to do it now or we like run out of money before launch and we're doing it now. And I don't care. Like I can work X, Y, and Z and I actually have like a whole chapter in a book where I'm essentially talking about like that was the time that I felt most validated in being a hard worker. And I felt like because I was in the library at 3 a.m. and I was also on the phone with the suppliers at 7 a.m. the next morning and all of X, Y, and Z and people could see it and I was living it. I was like hustling the hustle. And that was when I was like, wow, like this is it.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it was a month before my university finals. I was launching a business at the beginning of May, the 7th of May, if I'm right. And I finished my finals on the 6th of June. Now that meant that 40,000 words were due and five three-hour exams within the space of two weeks. And I also wanted to launch my business and I also wanted to do well at university. I've been working with that for three years. But I persuaded people as well. I persuaded people to spend money on this launch. I persuaded people to, you know, so I was going to do it right. People were like, you're amazing. Like, this is so great. Like, how can you do this? And I'm like, you are like, it's not wise. It's not smart. Like, it's not like this isn't a competition for how many boxes you can tick within a small space of time. That is like a fast track towards burnout.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think my toughest challenge in general was there was this stupid, stupid time that I'm constantly praised for that was the worst decision I've ever made in my life, which was that I was coming up to my university finals. I was launching a business to...”
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“Like that, it's very set on kind of one thing. And if that thing then doesn't work, I either want to do it again. Like it's really clear to me. I either want to do it again or I'm like, that wasn't right. And then I move on. But I know that I'm very... Straight out and very like I will not stop until”
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“And it was like a constant, like, and I don't think it's necessarily good. I don't think it was necessarily healthy. I was constantly so terrified that, you know, the same was for university, the same was for whatever. Like, I didn't get into Oxford the first time I applied. And I went again. I literally, that same day, I went online and I found out what I could do for a year that would earn myself some money to be able to not be, I guess, studying that year. And went to an applied for the IBM Futures Scheme, which is the one they do for gap year students, that literal same day, and then applied again the next year. And like as in, I'm very...”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your skill level, and you get more fulfillment than you'll get from anything. And I think I was so, I used to say, I remember saying, I think it was like when I was like 15, 16, and I would take work experience from anyone every single holiday and every single school holiday. And I remember my teachers saying like, you should probably choose one of the avenues and then you can do like more within that or something. And I remember just saying to them like, I'm so terrified that I'll be stuck in something that I hate.”
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“Pretty much all the time, incredibly like I respect her so much for it because I also never grew up thinking like, oh, it's weird for a woman to have a career and to have four children and like whatever. She just, you know, she worked all the time and she loved it. She loved it. And she gave her everything to it. And so I think I spent a lot of I spent a lot of time kind of in that situation knowing that I also wanted to love what I do. And I think there is this misled like perception that, you know, like if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I also think that there is this, like, it's a flow state, isn't it? Like you have something that matches your challenge and”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think probably a few things. I know that everyone in my family is a very hard worker and that is very It's kind of almost like an anxiety to do well, even though my parents were not pushy at all. I think people assume, you know, especially if you go to Oxford or whatever, the least pushy people ever, I think, that actually it all, I kind of was discussing this with my sister the other day. I was like, where does it come from? It doesn't come from our parents. Like, it comes from them clearly because they had it in themselves. But, you know, like they, both my parents had careers when I was growing up. I lived with my mum, just me, my mum, and we had a tenant who lived in my mum's house and my mum was working.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every inch of your being. I know I'm like that. So it's kind of like, yeah, sure, it might be for nothing, but I'm going to do it anyway. Like, there doesn't need to be reasoning behind the fact that this is how I am. I have always been. I've always, yeah, I've always been like this. I've always been kind of like, I'm going to make this happen, like whether that's kind of through coordinating all the babysitting jobs that you got in one night and allocating them out to your friends and stuff, or, you know, like taking essentially like any”
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“Yeah I think that it all comes with what you want, and I think that I've listened to you before and I've listened to you kind of saying that, you know, there came a point that you realized that it wasn't about money. So like, what was it about? And I think for me, there's the kind of aspect of it's for the businesses and I have these really clear dreams for the businesses that result in dreams for me as well, sure. But I think that that is, I think I'll come to a, you know, if I decide to sell a business or whatever, I'll come to that road there where I'm like, okay, what is it for now? And I think that. Knowing myself anyway I know pre business, post business, I'm sure I am like that. So whether it's this or whether it's something else or, you know, and I hope I can channel that into something else at some point that doesn't require.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can't remember. I think I really agreed to just lock down things. We'd agreed to watch a movie on a Sunday night and then the scene came up and I was just like, you know what? I'm going to do this. I'm just going to work harder. So it's just going to be easier for this week. And it was like tiny sacrifice. And my housemate turned around for me and she was like, what is the point of were you working this hard for this many years if you can't watch a movie on Sunday night? And I was like, Yeah, as in you're not wrong. I'm still going to do it. But you're not wrong.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's almost like masochistic. Yeah. Because obviously it's got the most amazing benefits, but it is also like, I remember my friend.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can't say, oh, I'm going to quit this and go and do this for two years because, especially when you've got X amount of people working for you, you've got all of their salaries. You've got all of their pensions. It's a huge responsibility.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Time in general, time to yourself, time to whatever. I think having a business in a way, and I'm sure some people will disagree, but having a business in a way is like having a baby and you can't just like up and do whatever. You can't say no when a crisis comes in at 1am. You can't, that is what it is. You get all the other benefits with those conditions. And so I think that, you know, that's kind of a constant one. Like you can't.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Choose I was going to go into a normal career. And I think that so I was so dedicated to making that happen rather than I wanted to grow up too quickly, essentially. I'm 23. And I think that a lot of that has been. I guess, in terms of people's, whether when it's people who meet you, their kind of perception of you or whatever it might be. And so I think that was something where it was a choice I'd make again and again. But it was, I guess, a sacrifice that I wasn't expecting to make. And I guess that comes with everything that comes with, you know, relationships with friends, with”
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“What I just wanted the university experience, really. And I think that I was so once this took off, I'm a very determined person and I get I get a vision and I'll work for it day and night. And I think that I actually got to. I think in that instance it's kind of like a fork in the road and you decide okay well I'm taking this one and I'm going to concentrate on this I'm going to grow the businesses I'm going to all of that and then I think as well I saw the deadline for that as my end of university because if I had to if it wasn't as big as I wanted it to be by that time or if it wasn't you know whatever it might be I was gonna”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Way into the night to get the other stuff done. And I also, you know, that comes with being high profile, that comes with a lot of these things. So I guess one of those things was very much like there was the time and the life experience and all of that, that because things took off quickly at one stage, even if it wasn't like it wasn't that the businesses took off, you know, the businesses have done much more over the past year and a half or whatever when I haven't been at uni. But at that point, you know, the high profile nests, all of that came with, I guess, different to what I was expecting and, or not what I was expecting, I wasn't expecting it at all. And therefore, there was kind of, I guess, you know, something that I really did want for myself I didn't get, but I also got, you know, a lot more in another way, I guess.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that at the same time as I kind of benefited hugely from the, you know, having money at university, for example, I also went to university expecting one thing and then actually spent it essentially getting up at X hour working on university stuff because I never, ever, ever wanted to give them an excuse to think that I wasn't concentrating fully on my university and then working all the way essentially.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have to be rational when we're not designed to be taking this much feedback and criticism, or even if it's not criticism, if someone, like I say the whole time, oh, I don't like that color. I don't like clothing or like whatever it might be. To the designer, that might Rip them to shreds or whatever. It's not mean. It's an opinion. And we're not designed to be able to take that in. So I think that there has to be a sort of rationalization on a human part or on your, like if you are in that position, you have a duty to yourself to learn how to deal with that or to remove yourself from the situation. Otherwise, it's just untenable, I guess.”
2021-02-22 · The Diary of a CEO · Grace Beverley: How To Build A Multi-Million Pound Empire At 24 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in the grand scheme of things, I don't think it necessarily matters. I think what matters is that you know in yourself and you also know that if there's something you need to change. You can change that. Like, if you want to, if I guess sometimes when something like other things, you know, like hit a nerve or whatever, like, do you need to change that? Do you need to address that? Do you need to do better? So I think that's kind of how I tackle it. But of course, no, there's not like something in me where I get a message that says you look ugly. And I'm like, thank you. That's so kind. That doesn't happen. That's not an initial reaction. But I think that you have to be.”
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“That kind of bandage was ripped off because it didn't exist. And that's when I realized that, you know, these things are the things that we need to be able to deal with and we need to be able to, I guess, cobble together to be able to, you know, no matter whether this person thinks X, Y, and Z about yourself, how much does that matter? If it does matter and if you do think it's wrong, are you going to do something about it? Can you still get on with your day, essentially? And I think that there are people who are amazing who I see on social media who I wouldn't give a single criticism to that I can think of that I'm sure get the exact same thing. And there are people who've been to hell and back and get the exact same thing. And there are people who actually have done, you know, have locked out and get the exact same thing.”
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“And that's fine. And I think that one of the things that I wouldn't wish, you know, when I think for my children that I wouldn't necessarily want them to be in is I wouldn't want them to be in a higher profile position when they're younger. And because I talk about, I have this whole chapter in the book, which is essentially a, I guess probably like the most honest I've been in a long time because it's, you know, as I've said, it's a there's no instant feedback loop. I can write this and not hear about back from it, but, you know, like a year. And it's me talking about how actually essentially I feel like a lot of I became known at a time where my self-confidence was at its worst. And therefore, I was able to, I guess, rather than filling that lack of confidence with confidence and self-worth, I filled it with validation. And therefore, when I decided to take a step back from social media because I decided that wasn't what I wanted to do kind of first and foremost as my job.”
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“Yeah, I mean, I think that any justified criticism, or it might be justified, it might be an unjustified criticism is hard to take. I think you can have a mature standpoint towards something and equally it's still going to feel like a punch in the stomach. Cool.”
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“That I work hard and they know that you know, often that's been an unhealthy amount. I use work as a coping mechanism. So it's been through the worst times of my life, that's what I know I can do. And that's what I throw myself into. And I think that I'd rather that conversation be had and me be able to know in myself why I've been successful and how I've worked. And I think that that's, you know, I guess first and foremost that's important. And that's how I'm able to. I guess that doesn't matter. I guess the important thing is that we're able to have the conversations and able to, like I'm able to know as well in myself, I know.”
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“I think it's an important discussion to have first and foremost. I think that, and I think I'll be the first to say that. And I think a lot of, you know, I spend a lot of time in the book, for example, contextualizing success because I think it's very important, especially when, you know, you're presented through people on your Instagram feed with in the same square and one of them's you make from school, one of them's like your mum and one of them's Beyonce and it's kind of like this democratization of the news feed that makes everything look the same and you don't see the teams you don't see the privilege you don't see all of the above and I think that it's a very important conversation to have so to be perfectly honest I'd be rather people have that conversation and maybe write off my success based on that I think that I think also aside from that I do think that you know a lot of the people who the people who do follow me and have followed me for a long time know my work ethic and they”
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“For me and my conceptions, and I think that it's just what it's become and it's actually obviously got better in some ways. You know, it's got hugely better since probably like the 1950s and whatever, but there's still a long way to go in that respect.”
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“Wow, but they're kind of like either they haven't actually done it. They've just been put at the front of it or they're like a bitch or really, you know, really bitchy or like a tyrant or whatever it is. And like that is, and I think that when I look at that, I'm like, actually, that's probably the way I see some people, you know, that's probably the way that is in some ways for, you know,”
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