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  1. “Sellers, we were only as great as they were. And that was that beautiful shift that we were creating in this world. We were respecting small businesses. They would get a media pack that cost us way too much, I think about five pounds per thing. But we wanted them to Know how talented they were. We curated from day one, which now, you know, is a word we use a lot. Back then, it was not a word. You know, why aren't you accepting everybody? And we would be, no, we're turning away 90% of everyone that joins, even though they're paying a joining fee and we're eating baked beans and worrying about the mortgage. We're not getting paid a salary. We will turn away 90% because one day our brand will thank us for it and it did. It very, very much did.”

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  2. “And as he said, with optimism, that energy is just infectious. And so we just were growing so rapidly. So we were going from £100,000 TTV to a million the next year to two and a half million to six million. Now keeping up with that and also remember in a marketplace, you have two clients. Yeah, I always laugh at people that moan about having one client. Like, try to. You know, you've got your customers and you've got all the small businesses, which by the way, you are only as great as their ability to keep up with 2,000% growth. Some of them are growing at 5,000% because they're the hot product. And so it's that coaching of that group of people to keep up with you. Meanwhile, you know, the swan to the customers and the swan to the partners, which we call them partners from day one. You know, they weren't.”

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  3. “And he said, Is that wonderful naivety where you get in a car in the cab, and the taxi driver is really, really chatty? And so you almost go and offer them a job because it's just this moment where you need soldiers. You know, that's that time, isn't it? You don't need the skill. We need power and we need energy and we need commitment and we need you not to have a high salary. That moment in time. And so that was what it was. And, you know, we were growing at 2,000%. We were trying to keep up with it. I call it like that speed train with all the nuts and bolts of flying off and you're at the driving seat. And there you're going.”

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  4. “Yeah, yeah. The team was small, myself, Sophie. I hired my sister, who was just going to help me out for a summer. She still works for me at Holly& Co, so that's been a good 16, 17 years that we've worked together now. Hide than her university friend. Her university friend came and coded the site. It's that beautiful moment that you're just literally, do you have a pulse and do you breathe? Okay, would you like to come and work for us? I was talking to somebody the other day.”

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  5. “What I try and whip up is very positive and good for the soul, good for small businesses, good for, and what are small businesses? They're founders with dreams, you know. I love that. And so that is why I've written potentially that is now my job description for the rest of my life is to build something that I can pour that in and be efficient and so amplify it. So not build an empire, but be really smart and amplify that feeling out to other people and help them.”

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  6. “Yeah, I think so. I think so I would have found that really difficult to tell you 20 years ago. But now. I have been through it and done it. And I also know that my optimism helps people. And I can see the effects and I can see, you know, what we brought up in Not in the High Street was full of it. You know, I used to have people come in to the office from other businesses that we would hire. They literally could feel it in the air. They were uncomfortable with it. It was optimistic. It was creative. It was emotional. And they were like, this place is so emotional. And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, we need to stop that. And I'm like, we're never stopping that. And I think that that's what I've realized is that that is what I can muster up. You know, I listen to one of my favorite songs is cloud busting by Kate Bush. And when I listen to that song, I feel like I'm whipping up a storm. And that is my power.”

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  7. “Now, I've got choice and a bit of the battle scars are there. And I have an appreciation that Know, I can give everything and all, but I need to make sure that my time on the planet is also for me too. Because I do believe I'm here to serve. And again, I can only say that now in hindsight. But if I am here to serve, I need to also serve myself.”

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  8. “That has also led to a countdown till I die So that also has fueled this optimism and fuck it mentality. Because if today I am going to change the world, which I can, it's even fueled even in a better way, actually. I didn't have that not in the high street because that was just, you know, firefighting and optimum was that fuel. But now I think I have gratitude. Empowering that even more. And that's been a beautiful, beautiful stage of my life.”

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  9. “So, you know, this life, I just need to schedule this a bit. So I've got 29,000 days. Oh shit, it's not 29,000 days. It's 14,000 days because I'm 40. Right. Okay. And so”

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  10. “I've never allowed for the other outcome ever. And it's actually my entire battery is powered by that. And I am told I radiate it. So when you're around me, you get hooked onto that. And that can be a really good thing because it drives people in those dark days when actually the entire world is telling you no. And I'm saying yes. And so it's an amazing thing. And I think that optimism, and actually now, as I said, getting older, it's actually, I would say there's optimism. And now I also have gratitude that's powering my battery. You know, I worked out my 40th birthday. I have 29,000 days on this planet because I'm as another golden thread that I'm sure you recognize as efficiency. I'm frigging addicted to it. So I needed to know.”

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  11. “Oh, yeah. I've kissed a lot of those frogs. Yeah, wouldn't you say that that's a common denominator you find in entrepreneurs?”

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  12. “I don't know how, but money is just this, you know, okay, so if we got the money, that in the hard bit really is doing the doing, isn't it? It's building it. So I always just knew somehow this will work out. I mean, of course, you have the terrible dark days.”

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  13. “You know, as a parent, you know, if your child had any issue, would you not think that you could overcome those issues? Absolutely. And that's the resolute that you need to be in business. It's why I call, not in the high street, my first business baby, Holly and Coe, my second. I love them as if they are my children. And they will.”

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  14. “Never, never, never. You know, at the same time that we were running out of money, I was buying every single URL for the whole world. So we couldn't pay for the heating. So we had coats on between, you know, 9 a.m. and 2. That was the coldest period in our office. And then because the whole building was being knocked down, but we just kept our office. So we had no boiler, no heating. But I was still buying the URLs across the globe. And to this day, I think it's one of the most fantastic businesses, but never would it fail ever.”

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  15. “You know, he played with our seat. He basically said that's great. Thank you so much. And we packed up and we left. And my father said, I'm so proud of you both, knowing that not in the high street it just died, that we hadn't got the money. And it was finished because our homes were on the line. It was finished. And just as we pressed the bell for the elevator, he said, actually, do you have a moment? And he bought a bottle of champagne. And that was it. Our destinies changed. But that was how close we were. But, you know, we definitely turned right. That meant we got our first VC. Fantastic. And then, you know, we started building Not in High Street and it was growing very, very quickly.”

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  16. “And, you know, we were putting what we were doing there. Obviously avoiding the conversation that we were paying the staff with our credit card checkbooks, you know, like everything is fine. Oh my gosh, you know, it's like every time you raise any money, the grass only go, you know, through the sky and how you're going to do it will work it out. But it was an amazing moment. And Tom Titman, who was the investor, had just written the first check for last minute.com. And he saw what we were trying to do. And he actually saw the power of female purchasers and that whole world. And so we did the pitch and he.”

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  17. “Well, it must have been eight months. But when we were pitching, it was just before Christmas. And I remember just telling, I mean, we hadn't got our first set of accounts yet, you know, we were there. And I remember my father being in the pitch meeting.”

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  18. “Christmas and we were now paying our staff on our egg credit card checkbooks. We were, my parents remortgaged their house twice. Sophie's parents lent us money. I mean, it was dark, dark days. I mean, not in the high street was definitely on its last breath. But the issue was it was working. You know, it hadn't been working up until that point. We used to have a bell that you would ring when there was a checkout of £30 and we were taking 10%. And this bell would ring every second day. And we were just thinking, my God, this is just hell. But just as we were really running out of money, the bell just kept on ringing. It was happening because it was Christmas and people wanted great gifts. So that was an extraordinary journey, but one that ended well because we found someone who understood what we were building.”

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  19. “Go and raise money. And that was one heck of an experience because if you want to take yourself back to 2006, when we know 1% of VC money right now goes to women, what do you think the statistic was then? So we would pack up our personalized bags. We get on the tube, no money for taxis. We would knock on the doors with meetings, you know, that people knew someone who knew someone. And we go and pitch the idea of not in the high street to the land of VCs who pretty much 100% would tell us that their wives did the shopping in their household and that it was lovely that us women wanted to create a crafts website. But really there was nothing in it. And I just said, well, we're actually going to change the face of retailing, funny enough, Snellcraft website. And that continued right up until the...”

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  20. “Yeah, yeah, totally. We ran out of money. We launched in April and we're running out of money in the July because, funny enough, technology costs a lot of money, especially when it's never been built before. And so we had to.”

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  21. “Of a child. When you're a founder and literally you're launching a shopping site with no checkout, what are you going to do? And so we found someone who in two weeks built the technology that eBay were building in America. And we just relaunched and we nailed it.”

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  22. “Hey, hi. Is that the CTO? You know that stuff you're building there? Is any chance I could have it too? Because we're dealing with a company in Cornwall who has led us down. So we don't, you know, this hadn't been built yet, this functionality. And so we launched, we called it a press preview and we just pivoted and we were on something called Daily Candy, which was huge at the time. We were on the Daily Mail Front cover, all this sort of stuff. It was great. So we got all the traffic, but no one could check out. But, you know, as motherlines that we were, and I always liken businesses to being a parent, something that in my latter years was frowned upon by the VCs. Because actually I do believe that when you have that spirit of a parent, you can lift a car.”

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  23. “Well, because funny enough, eBay couldn't even build a multi partner checkout with one basket. You know, no one had yet actually done that technology. So, and I remember naively calling, you know, calling eBay, just picking up the phone to eBay, thinking, I don't know who I'm going to get through.”

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  24. “Our homes slightly, both of us. So I think we came to it with about £80,000 thinking that we had contingency in there. I mean everything. And funny enough, we didn't have enough money. But we launched on the 3rd of April with no checkout to our shopping site.”

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  25. “Be that person. And so I wrote to her, and I still got the email, and it says, you know, I want to bring everything that's not on the high street together. But I had a terrible beta name. And 24 hours later, she said yes, because she was that customer too. She wanted to find the curious, discover the small businesses and things. But I had a three-month-old baby that wasn't going to stop me. And so we went on this journey to build it. And as I said, you know, we tried to build a marketplace with no tech experience or retail experience, but we knew what we wanted. And so we pulled together a few savings. we were both with young children our husbands were working to pay for the mortgage we got a loan from a bank very small loan and we remortgaged”

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  26. “Well, the startup that Sophie and I had, so the story is that basically after your local fair had a three-month-old boy called Harry with my now husband Frank, I realized that I couldn't ignore what I had witnessed. When you put a group of small businesses together that are like-minded and bring together discerning customers, there's something that happens there. The High Street was dying. And I needed to do that. But I knew I didn't want to do it alone after your local fair, which was my fair business. I couldn't do it alone. So I just wrote to my old boss, Sophie, from publicists. So she was my boss saying, you know, I basically don't think there's anyone else on the planet that has the yin to your my yank, you know, is able to rewrite the English dictionary and can.”

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  27. “It is awesome. You know, I look at it, you know, before when I was in it, in it, you know, I thought, oh, my gosh, there's so many things. Just put them on this thing called the internet. And then wouldn't it be great if you could shop from, you know, Lily Bell and shop from the letter room and put it into one basket? Well, of course, okay. Well, we got 20 grand. So let's build a website for 20,000 pounds. And we found someone who could do that. Big watch out there. And funny enough, three days before launch, we realized that they couldn't do that, you know, that there was no checkout. But because, again, there was no experience, we had already told the whole world with a microsite that was counting down the days to launch and all the press that we were very able to get, that we were launching on this specific day, the 3rd of April.”

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  28. “So, always your course of direction will be to the right. With Holly and Co, what I loved was not having that and also being able to, you know, when people said, so what is Holly& Co? I could barely explain it. I didn't have an elevator pitch. I didn't want to fall into that. Actually, I think that is the beauty of what I was looking to do, but I did have a brand heart. I knew that we had that. I didn't have the final destination, but I have the coordinates of a few places I know to go. And I know that I am, you know, I know the direction I'm heading. I always call it like an anchor. You know, I've got an anchor in the future. I've got the rope that I'm holding. And that rope will change. It will pull me to the right and left. But I am anchored. Yeah. And I'm enjoying that. That's what I'm really enjoying.”

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  29. “Well, actually, that's not what I did for Nottingham the High Street, but it is what we've done for Holly and Co. That was the, you know, that's the point, isn't it? You learn from not in the high street, in Holly and Co, I have learned I don't want to do it all again as I did, but not in High Street. So I don't want a final destination when you take VC money on you have some final destinations that you know. You've turned right and not left.”

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  30. “Listening more, not running so fast, and picking up the cues along the way, which I think I probably miss the first time around. So I'm actually really happy to become more patient. I mean, we'll put it in perspective. You know, I'm very ambitious. But I am actually learning to listen to the world a bit more.”

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  31. “Well, none at the beginning. I mean zero patience. Hurricane Hawley. I mean, do you know what I mean? Now I've got a little bit more. You know, actually I'm enjoying that getting older and just having a slight.”

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  32. “Just cutting it up into five pieces and say, okay, if there were five things that I've got to concentrate on to restore me, what are they? But it's a pretty painful process.”

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  33. “Was one, discovering creative folk. My community, who was I meant to belong to, building entrepreneurism, all these elements were coming through. I was lucky at the end of the first this year, I actually met my partner who's been my partner for 18 years and I got married in lockdown. So now he's my husband. So I was lucky to find somebody. And he did a lot of cheerleading for me, you know, sort of, because when you're in that place, you don't really have a perspective on anything that you can give anymore. And so I think that's another incredibly important thing is to surround yourself with people who adore you and are willing to tell you what may be. What makes the sunshine out of you, what that is. And so I was lucky to have that. But that brand heart, like the who is Holly.”

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  34. “Well, it's actually something that now I have a word for, whereas at the time it was a sort of process. When I consult with small businesses, and I don't now do one-on-ones, but in my book, for instance, it's called A Brand Heart. And it's basically, I believe that a business has a heart. Everything has to come off it. You know, that's the pumping organ that everything should come back to. Now you as a founder need to understand what should go into that heart. And it actually should be made up of you. So I think what I did was I went back to, so what makes Holly exist? What makes Holly alive? And through that process, which was about a year, and my second one, which we'll come to probably, you know, lasted two or three years, was creativity.”

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  35. “And that was almost again a pretty bad existence because I was on my own putting on these events. It was, you know, pouring with rain one day. You can't control the weather. You can't control the football being changed. You can't do anything. But what it did do is it made me realize my total love for small businesses and what they create because I curated all of those stalls and I could see that there was absolute hidden treasure that no one else had discovered before. And so the town hall roof, I suppose, was the prototype to not in the high street.”

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  36. “Well, what risk? Because, you know, what was going to go wrong there, people weren't going to come to the fair. I knew that they would. I knew that they'd like my reefs because they were good. I didn't see risk. You know, I just went into it and I created this event and it kicked off. It was amazing. Sold all my wreaths, hated wreaths by the end of the thing, was not going to have that career. But now I was going to have a”

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  37. “That's my DNA. That's what I'm doing now at Holly and Coates, what I did at Notting High Street. I don't look just because it doesn't exist doesn't even bother me. It's actually just part of the fun of building. I love building. I love...”

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  38. “And I realized that actually there wasn't any local fair that I could go and sell it. So again, if you dream it up, you can make it happen. So I created the first Chisket Christmas fair with 200 stalls so that I could get the best stall.”

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  39. “You know, it was just I needed to be creative. I love interiors and I've always, you know, at the age, my 14th birthday present was a subscription to the world of interiors. So, you know, that has just been something I have to have a creative environment to exist in. So my home right now is a shrine, not in the high street. I had to move house to get bigger and bigger homes just to hold what, you know, you can imagine what I'm surrounded by. And so that was just glorious for me, you know, why not? I just did it. And then that was this path that just opened up to me because I realized that I needed to sell these things because I was going to obviously become a millionaire, you know, for reinventing the wreath because that's what was needed in the world.”

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  40. “Slightly the thing that saved me was going back to my creative roots. You know, if I hadn't gone to the University of Life, I was going to go and do an art degree. So creativity sort of saved me and I went on to, you know, create vegetable wreaths, which again, I just always think, you know, the story needs to be sexier than the vegetable wreaths. But there it was. And I built this wreath and I went down to my local high street to try and sell it. And I was just freelancing at that time in publishing. But this was allowing me to be creative in the evening.”

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  41. “I really wish her well. I mean, mine wasn't, you know, it wasn't that serious. So, you know, that was something that I was very, very lucky about. But I think one of the things was that I had to find, you know, twice in my life I've had to find out who I am again. Because when you pull your identity into something else that's not yourself, or it becomes your identity, I think we all do that in relationship sometimes. You know that you are married or, you know, that's what I did as a young girl. So then when it all fell apart, who am I? And that was a really difficult moment for me.”

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  42. “Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah. But you just think the world's against you. And now I just realize it was a great hiccup the buck.”

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  43. “I was just very poorly. I put on a lot of weight and I was just not functioning correctly. And in the end, with all pushing it, because also a young girl going to the doctor and pushing it with all the scans we found out. But as I said, it was livable with. And, you know, and that's something that's fine, but it caused us a huge amount of turmoil. And that's not to say I think my marriage would have ever lasted anyway. But it just created turmoil. And I now think back to how tough your early 20s are. You know, I don't think I would repeat them. I think it's quite difficult age. You're meant to be grown up. You're just still a kid.”

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  44. “Time I was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and that was fine. It was a fatal, but it had a lot of side effects. So at quite a young age, at sort of 23, 24-ish, I was dealing with a lot full-time job, all these sorts of things. And again, I look at my son who's about to turn 17. I think, wow, Holly, you were young to do all of this. So in my early 20s, a lot of things changed for me. And I had to slow down. I had to lose full-time work. I had to become freelance. I had to concentrate on my health. I had to get divorced. And so, yeah. And that was the first knockdown. I would say I've had two of those in my life. And that was the first one. And it was pretty painful.”

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  45. “Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah. And we got married at 21 and divorced by 24. And so it was my early 20s were very, very difficult period of time of my life because I had built up since I was 18. You know, I had built up this life and this world. And of course, you get married then, right? And, you know, you're going to have children and you've got a property in Chiswick. And, you know, you're all there. And then sort of life pays you back or gives you, I don't say pay you back. That's the wrong way, gives you an interesting lesson, which is be careful to be in a hurry all the time. Just because you want it and you can get it doesn't mean it's right. And so we found ourselves as a natural human being developing in our personalities and things and realizing that we weren't destined to be together forever.”

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  46. “Yes, I worked there until I was about 21 years old, and then I got headhunted to move to Cond ⁇ Nast. Meantime, I managed to marry my childhood sweetheart. Again, Hurricane Holly was in a hurry. So I bought a place. I got married.”

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  47. “I think, you know, I was always fascinated by my father's role. He was a financial, a CEFO at General Electric, and he traveled the world. And I was always fascinated with what he did. grandparents all had their own businesses and I was fascinated by that. My mother had a small business when I was younger. I think that always, you know, how we get our money was always placed, we didn't, you know, we weren't, we were fine, but money and where we got our money was always spoken about. So I very quickly realized you work to live. So that's what happens. And so if I wanted to go out, I needed to work for that money. So that has just, that was always part of me. So, you know, maybe that just led to me just continuing to work because that meant that you lived. And so, yeah, so I think that, but my work ethic, you know,”

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  48. “To say, Mum, Dad, I've moved out. I'm living in Holston, which they weren't necessarily thrilled about. I must have been 18. Yeah, 18. So that is been me. I was dyslexic, didn't find out for my exams. I definitely am someone who has to work hard to achieve and always been creative. So that has been a constant in my life. I studied art at A-level and I created this huge sculpture that they had never had someone do before called Tom Dick and Harry. And they actually cast it in bronze and had a crane pull it out of the art studio and they had to take the windows out. And it's still there today at my school because I always go for it, I suppose. So yeah, that was me, you know, but so when we say before the age of 18, you know, I was in an office at the age of 18. All my friends went to Uni. And as I said, I did this University of Life thing.”

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  49. “And that I now call my sort of University of Life. And then my mum got me in the car and we went to pick up my A-level results where I thought up until about a year ago I got a D in business studies. I actually got an E. And that was just ironic because that was the moment I started work. I celebrated my 18th birthday in the office. And I've been working ever since I'm 44 now. So I think that that says a lot about who I was. I was just so eager to be in the big wide world. I remember my parents going on holiday and I was living at home. And I mean, again, if my son ever did this to me, I just rented a place with some friends in Halston because I was working in Bake Street and just moved out. I just packed up the car and drove the car and text my”

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  50. “Because I was, I think, and still am today, incredibly excited by life, I really wanted to juice life and I was ready to work. And I think work has always been an incredibly important thing. I remember at 15 becoming an intern for publicist advertising agency on Baker Street. So as my friends would spend the summer out in the, you know, getting up to mischief, no doubt, I would be traveling up to Baker Street to spend my summer working. And I did that when I was 15, 16, and 17. And it actually ended up being on the day of my A-level results. My mom waited around the corner and I went for a job interview on the same day I was getting these A-level results in the morning and I got a job as the junior junior teammaker at publicisative advertising agency.”

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