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Mary Portas

lines on the record: 103
first: 2021-06-21
most recent: 2021-06-21
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I know I'm a bit of a nightmare on my toes. You too, my dummy. I really appreciate it. And love and luck for all you do. Thank you. Please shine your light in the world it's needed. I mean it.”
2021-06-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Mary Portas - How To Stop Living A Life That Isn't True To You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, and you have your kids and you're resettling where you live. Everything changed. Everything. So my business changed, my marriage ended, where I lived changed. So it was a huge amount of change. And actually the last thing I was able to do was bring anyone into that. I had to be with me. Yeah, and it was very, very painful, very painful. And I think it's only in the last six to ten months I've come through it.”
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“That's some very nice joystick. But came in a, I think I manifested it as well. Now just for Uncle now I'm ready for something and I genuinely feel I sort of opened up my, we spend so much time feeding energies that just are not worth it, that you just have to keep pushing up.”
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“No, but I'm not going to tell you who is. That'll be a nice headline. I sound fair to them, you know, because it's just no one in the public eye. We want to be thrown into it, but. That's super”
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“Just recently, you know, I split up with my wife Melanie back in three years ago. And I was, you know, three years on my own.”
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“I don't think I have. I mean, I don't think it looks particularly great that I've got two failed marriages. But actually, there were some brilliant years. And you know they were long and they created beautiful things. So I don't see them as failure. I genuinely don't see them as failure as a part of my life. And I've changed, I am not the same person that I was when I met or, and I'm on a very different part of my journey. And that happens. And I think we can just get so hung up on that. You know, I've had incredible, I've had long relationships. Now, I've never really struggled with relationships, I don't think. No, I've had a pretty decent long ones. I was on my own the last, which has been the first time in ages. That was really unique for me, you know.”
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“Out of sync, I just have this thing that just says pause and I pause. And then I relax. And I could be sitting in a meeting like this where I might be wanting to talk more. I just stop and let it come back in. And it's just helped me, hugely.”
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“Well, I started by doing little podcasts, listened to someone tell me how to do it because I was a bit hopeless and me sitting still ain't great. And it's just, I do each morning with it. I need to do 10 minutes and then I'll try and do it at the end of the evening. And I steal my mind and I just connect. And I feel my energy going to my body, and I clear at any time the little thing comes in that says I go thought and then I laugh at it. I don't get annoyed. I just go and I laugh at the me that's the thought that just tells you all this shit. And then I just open up my energy as much as possible. And then during the day where I find myself where I might be going.”
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“Because it steals my mind and your mind is the biggest tool you have that can just fuck you over terribly or it can really ignite you.”
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“Same with fashion, and people go, Oh, yeah, but that fashion everybody can afford it. You stand out some of those shops, everyone's coming out with three carrier bags of shit that's going to go into landfill, or we don't market the hell out of it via that and we tell the truth that buying something that lasts and recycles and upcycles and that you share. Is actually where the new sex is. Sexy's the word, you know. It's really important. That is important. I call it status. Status symbols we've moved to. Now we're into status sentience. How do we create a world where we understand that being sentient and connecting with experience and life and being generous in the world is more important than symbols. Big move, massive move. And we need to look at the brands. We need to look at power in business. And that's where I'm starting.”
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“Well, I mean, we can look at that in terms, but it's again what was valued. My mother had very little money, but she fed us and she didn't make us obese by buying shit food that was too cheap.”
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“It's totally possible, you know that. Now, obviously, some people go, it's all right from her sitting, from her money doing that, yeah. I've made money. Yeah. But I'm doing it. And there's people who are doing it who haven't. And those are the ones I take the hat off to. Those are the ones. And if I can just put a bit of volume on it, then I will because I've got a bit of a big mouth.”
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“We can make that change happen. We can do it by being more humane, by being kinder, and by creating commerce. That feeds and gives social progress as well as financial progress”
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“You create a different way of being a business that's not siloed, that's not individualistic. You move from me to we. So everything that you do, you are thinking that bit wider than yourself. It's like being a mother. apparent in any sense. Undoubtedly, I would always put them first. Always not even a always. You think about that in your business doesn't stop me being me, doesn't stop me developing, doesn't stop me opening up, doesn't stop me growing, doesn't stop, but I am being a responsible, connected, kind individual. Need to do this with the world. And the reason I put people planet profit in their order is the planet's going to go on without us. We'll fuck it and we'll all die. Quite simply. And it'll regenerate. It's done that, as we know, I said, whatever.”
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“All of it. It's actually looking and going. We know that Simon Sinek wrote the great books on why rather than just it's looking at what your business is here for what is your philosophy and your purpose really understanding that and connecting it deeply to you on a human level first of all And you've got a lot of wokenism going on. And, oh, yeah, our purpose is to make the world better. No, you know. What is your true purpose as a business? And now, once you start to work on that and yourself, and I've done it through the book, you then create. The environment through your people, through how you pay them, How you inspire them, through how you connect your customers, through the truth of how you manufacture, how you create, how you collaborate.”
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“Voices go just there. It's where you meant to be. And then one day I woke up and I rang my chief execution. I said, I think this is where we need to go. And she's amazing. And I'm also thinking, well, she's forty something with two kids and she's, you know, in this business with me. It's all right me going, this is amazing. Can we? But I think we should go this route. And we talked about it and talked about it. And the more I talk to the more it opened up and my head of strategy and my anthropology and we were all like, yes, actually we need to be advising business on being better, better to people and better to the planet. And that's how it all started. And that's my journey now. That is it. Am I excited by it? No. But do I get up and think that it's deeply in there with me? And I just have to follow it now.”
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“Over the years that even the planet that we were killing was all part of this, the way that we suppressed ourselves in search of more. We've just killed the planet, we've killed our well-being. And I just kept on going on the journey. And then I did a TED talk on it. And they asked me to do a TED talk and I thought, what am I going to talk on? It just kept on coming up, this theme. So I talked on, when I called it, we need the kindness economy, we need an economy that isn't about growth, that isn't about money at any cost, that just doesn't measure linear. How do we create well-being? It's not that I'm anti-capitalism. I like money. How do we create a world of that? And I started to go on it. And then COVID hit, bam. And it was there. It kept going, this is what you meant to be doing, Mary. And I'm looking at how to get back to make the same money as I did before. And all the while I'm chasing that, my God, my business is going there.”
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“I remembered discovering one of our great creatives, suffer with depression. He actually told someone else. No wonder he's like that. I would never have looked at that before. Okay, how do we work with this? So I started on that journey then. And then I realized that, you know,”
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“And I started to go on that journey then. So that's exactly when it was. It was eight years ago, nearly nine. And I wrote the book, created a new culture in my business, opened up, started to talk about stuff that made me feel vulnerable, started to bring in this more compassionate way of working and actually connect with what would have been seen as soft skills or HR department. Actually, I believed we're going to be the new power skills love, kindness. Because before, you know, 12 years ago, if someone wasn't working, I'd be like, oh, done, out. You know, boom, on to the next thing. You're not good enough. How do you do that? What's going on in that person's life?”
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“has to suppress his creativity, his sensitivity to go and be a bastard, basically, because they get to the top. This was the time of, you know, money, power, fame. Those are the ones, your trumps, your Philip Greens, loads of fucking knight them. They're brilliant. Yeah, sir.”
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“I wrote work like a woman on that, realizing that actually what I had suppressed was my deep sensitivity. And I called it my feminine instinct because I do believe the power of the feminine has been suppressed over millennia. There's no two ways about it. There's no two ways about it. We have created a male-dominated alpha energy in the world because we killed and through through the church millions of women who were the sages who were, we've suppressed femininity and that power is the power that's going to take us through into the next part of the world. And I started looking at this and I started, I never saw myself as a feminist because I, you know, look at me. I looked at mine and why do I need to be that? And I started to go, what are we doing with our children through work that we, this young man,”
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“Doing economics, and I suppose I'll end up going into finance in the city. And I was like, I just remember this. Like this deep. And I remember sitting with him thinking. That's not your frequency, that's not you. I mean, you're getting your, you've grown up with me and you're going to have to change you. Go into that world. And then I looked at little Horatia, the baby, and thinking, this is what we all do. We all bloody have to change. I thought, actually, I've done this. I've changed. I became, you know, when I was on the board of Harvey Nichols, the businesswoman, when it was Mary, Queen of Shops, when it was Mary, whatever on the TV, I was that. What the hell am I doing? Am I still doing this? And so I went on that journey then. And that's when I decided to change the whole way that I ran the business.”
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“Sitting with Mila, who was going off to do a very bright lad. He was going off to do philosophy and economics. We were just chatting on the bed. I remember clearing his bedroom. There's a little cricket back there, and I get emotional because I remember going off to find the cricket bat. And I remember also being really fucked off because all the sports shops are closed and they become JB Sports and JG Sports, you know, like, no, that's not a sports shop. I want to go to a sports shop where someone says, I'll give you the cricket bag and knows about sport. But I found one in Sherburn where a friend lived. I found this little, and I was looking at the cricket bat and thinking all the memories, you know, it was just that lovely pecking his stuff. And I'm just looking at his little hand sitting next to me on the bed of big hands. Jews, what do you think you'll probably do? He goes, well, I don't know.”
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“Well, About five, ten, I can't remember years where they go, but about seven years ago I looked at my business and thought. I number it. No, it's longer than that. It was eight years ago. And my little baby's son was born. Beautiful little man came into the world, and he was born on the Monday and on the Saturday, my 18-year-old son was going out into the world to university. And I mean, obviously, you can imagine the emotions that are going through my body. There's this young man that's come into this world and this young man is going out into this world. And it was just visceral. And I do cry when I'm feeling happy or sad or listen to great music. It clears me, especially if it's Nick Cave. I kept on crying and just this movement. And I remember”
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“Totally, or like me trying to wash the dog in the garden the other way, and my partner nearly was wetting us off laughing because I couldn't get the dog. I said, bam over here. The hose was going everywhere. And it was just that moment of madness and joy. The little dog running around the garden, it was just those things.”
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“When you describe these moments, face lights up. That's joy. That's why when you talk about the office. And we talk about the high street, it's the trivial. What we think are trivial. That's what makes the world. That's what makes life. That's what fuels”
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“I sat in the garden with my sister last week and my sister and I love my sister. She's just one of the great people I know. She was always quieter as a kid and she always let me be. Like she was three years older, but she was always like, you know, when she was 18 and I was 15, she'd take me out to the club. It's like, no one's done that. You know, like she was like, come on. I just sat with her, and it was just a moment we were just sitting together. We weren't speaking. And it was just that moment when that connected”
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“No, but I feel that warmth and that energy going through my body that thinks, yes, I want to be in that place. But it's not excitement.”
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“I've had other times like that, and they've not been sitting in can at a restaurant. They've been really fundamental, simple, simple, simple places where I felt that surge of joy. Where you feel, I can feel it now, where you can put it and you can feel your energy going through your body, which is beautiful. And I would rather have that than this excitement.”
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“Do you know, I remember now you've said something, and I remember I think it's being what you talk about totally connected. I remember a true surge of joy coming through my body. When I was walking through a supermarket, this had nothing to do with the supermarket. But I had my baby daughter in front of me. And I had my husband with me with my little son. I was totally in a place of joy, in a supermarket. But there was something about this place of these two beautiful kids I had loved. And I remember this surge coming, and I'm like, God, I feel really happy.”
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“That doesn't mean I don't feel complete. But I don't get excited Maybe someone's going to listen to this some really incredible psychoanalyst, and they're going to go, we'll work this out and tell you why.”
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“It doesn't excite me. I don't know. Maybe that is. Maybe that is a subliminal thing that we've both done. I hadn't thought about that, but I felt I even had it like my partner said to me, oh, you've got that, aren't you excited? And I said, No, I have to tell you, I don't get excited. I was getting into therapy. I have to sit you down and tell you I don't get it. That doesn't mean I don't feel joy.”
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“I'm trying to work that through because I've never sat with anyone and worked that through or talked that through. It doesn't stop me really enjoying.”
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“Yeah, I mean, I have great things in my diary, or someone says, Oh, aren't you excited? You're doing that tomorrow? And I just think, no, I just don't get excited. And you said you don't either.”
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“Something they don't have but need. We really need this revolution. There is part that are doing it, but there's a whole part of society that are still buying into this lack of self-esteem. And we as marketeers have been selling that for years.”
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“exactly what I wrote about. I was part of it. When I was creative director at Harvey Nix, I sold this stuff to people thinking yeah, bloody brilliant look. Make this sexy and it was not dissimilar. Now it's just got faster and faster and faster and faster and faster. And it is totally all based on I'm not good enough. I'm not good enough.”
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“But when I was doing my research for my book and looking at the spend on the pressure on young people who follow the Kardashians to get the new this, the new that, it's insane. It's insane because I used to look back and think, well, you know, my mother couldn't afford stuff. So we just put up with it, but we weren't sold the marketing dream. We weren't sold this shit. This has gone so deeply into society so deeply that we do need people like you that are going, this is just crap. Standing up and saying this is crap. And anyone comes on Dragon's Day trying to sell that crap.”
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“Which then cascades downwards. What I'm talking about, the pressure. I'd love the Kardashians to turn around and say, let's not buy any more stuff and let's recycle. Wouldn't it be brilliant? Imagine what that would do for consumerism.”
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“sold how they need to look how they need to behave how their body needs to be what their beauty regime should be it's it's ridiculously tough and i you know i i live in a society where i'm seeing a young generation that are pushing against that but there's an awful lot of young women particularly amen out there who how they are looked and how they're perceived and what their life is like and and 40 pluses i i look at some people on facebook and i think really you still doing this you need to go out there and show what new shoes you've bought or what you had for brunch or where you at really really”
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“Yeah. And I think it's deeply difficult. I think we've got two strands coming through. I think it's used as an incredible place for voice and change to happen. And I think the Gen Zs are going to be probably the best generation that we've seen in a very, very, very long time. And the more I read about them, the more I have a social anthropology unit in my agency, the more we research this, the more I utterly love them. And I'm more I want them to make this world better. And I think they will. And you young millennials, absolutely. I think, and I think there's a lot that comes out of it that's fantastic. The other part of it is, oh boy, I would love to change what are now used as icons and role models, especially around beauty, fashion, and young women. It is just too much to live up to. And I find it, that I find just terribly stressful for individuals and the way that they've been...”
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“I think, you know, there's the good and the bad and the ugly, isn't there? I mean, I think it's a really tough world to be in that you are always on. That's a very tough place to be. And I purposely, you know, don't do as much, even though I should be, you know, because I just think I only want to do something when I really have something to say. And I know it drives some of my agents around the bend.”
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“I reckon we ended up with such many crap businesses because logic, data and systems overtook instinct creativity and innovation. And we need to bring that back. And interestingly, you talking about high streets, what has come back is people understanding the importance of connection and community through high streets. And we will see that coming back. And I had the Labour Party get in touch with me saying they wanted to re-look at what we were doing on the High Street Report 10 years ago because when I did it 10 years ago, they didn't understand that. It was all about bottom line, all about bottom line.”
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“Even, you know, now I've always bought, I've always wanted to do, and it's just trying to get the idea, you know, a totally sustainable secondhand recycled vintage take a whole space, like a massive mount that's closed down and create tomorrow's where everything is about recycled, upcycled, vintage remade. And I've got to get on and do that, but it's too big. If I go, no, no, no, I'm not sure how that could work. How do you, but I just know it will. And so I have to follow the instinct on.”
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“I think, you know, I think I'll know when I needed to have got out of relationships and kept telling me something and kept telling me and you're like, oh no, no, I've suppressed that. Suppressed it in times where I've, you know, thought. In business I don't particularly like this person. And yet the And it always ends up always. You know, you feel it. You feel it. And ideas sometimes, you know, they just come. If you're really, really feeling free and in tune, they just come and they're wonderful. It's been my, I'm sure it's, but it's been my ability to sort of feel something deeply and know that that's right. And you can get people that can analyze, put data behind it, logic. And I've listened to them in the past and I've let things go and go, oh, not regret, but all.”
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“Well, it is. But I also don't want to not be a voice because I think it's important for, you know, when I did meet Mel, there was no women in the public eye besides sandy toxic who were in same-sex relationships. And I remember this for my children having to, you know, when they went to school, there was no books on it. I mean, I'm talking, what are we, Milo's now 26, so I'm talking, you know, he was nine. It wasn't so I thought I had to do that and I did it and I don't mind doing it but you know there is a fluidity to it”
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“When I did and married Mal, all the prides and they all grab hold of you and put lesbian. Oh, okay. Well, I've got to do this for the sake of all of you and be a voice, which I wanted to be. But you kind of also go, now you're also labeling me. It was a really, but I also don't want to let you downstair. And I will do the opening speech at Pride because I know you need women. And I've just had another one that came through on, you know, LGBT virgin radio marriage. I don't want to be also categorized in that way because I'm not.”
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“Did married woman and I'm with the woman now. It's interesting. I don't know whether female sexuality is particularly different from male sexuality, but I I've been in love with. Two men in my life, and I've been in love with two women. I've never sort of, I never as a child thought, oh my good, I'm a lesbian. I fancy Linda Evangelista, I've got to do something about it. And I had relationships with women. I had relationships with men. It just didn't ever bother me. But once I had fallen in love with the woman, I remember, you know, saying to my sister, she's like, but you're not a lesbian. I said, well, I don't know what I am. Do I have to put a label to it? And the interesting thing is.”
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“I remember watching the film of Alan Turing and it just actually heartbreaking and here was a gay man who could not live his life and I just thought that has got to be. I think that's sort of the 50s and 60s was worse than any time, you know, that American dream of the housewife and being the two kids and living the American dream of the house and actually you had to suppress your sexuality, your frequency, your truth, your love, your ability to soar. Isn't that just the worst? Torture torture.”
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“I felt different, but I wanted to be like the middle class girls that were living in Chawley Wood. And I came from the working class. So it was the kids from Watford that got into the grammar school that were the sort of, that parents didn't have the money. We used to get the bus out. And then the middle class from Chorleywood and all those areas, their parents used to drop them off in cars. And then they'd get to the sixth before they'd drive in themselves. I was like, oh my God, I want to be this. And then I went.”
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“I met some old school friends. They were like, whoa, you know, my life. Because I was just always the one in trouble. Or I remember getting 17% in physics and thinking, I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit. Oh my God. I was like 17%. I never felt embarrassed. I was just like, I knew I was a bit different as well, though. You felt different. I did feel different.”
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