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Mary Portas

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2021-06-21

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1. “It could have been Dagenham, but they chose Watford. Those were the two options. And I'm kind of proud George Michael, Elton John. So we're kind of on a good football team. But I think looking back on my childhood, my elder siblings, we often talk about this we're very, very close as sort of a two-year, one-year gap between us all. And I was the fourth. And I remember vividly thinking I'm not the eldest, I'm not the youngest, I'm not the first girl, and I didn't feel particularly special.”

   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

2. “Well, of course, I think that probably is the case. I was one of five kids. I was the fourth out of five. And my parents were Irish had come over in the late 50s. from Ireland. My father was a Protestant, my mother was a Catholic, so from Belfast, from the north of Ireland. So this wasn't, you know, Was a time when that wasn't looked on too happily. So they came over and chose Watford to live in.”

   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

3. “I like a really good life and I have a very good life Knew I was a bit different as well, though. You felt different. I did feel different. I was doing TV shows, radio shows. I had my own collection. I had the business. Oh God, how shit is that, life? And I lost me in that. There wasn't times where it wasn't fantastic. There was, but where was I? I didn't stop to breathe. We've really fucked this planet for you guys. We were blind. We were blind consumers living a life while we slowly killed the planet and our well-being. So it has to be you guys that go no. My mother died when I was very suddenly of encephalitis when I was 16. And she was the center of the world. And I had to grow up very quickly and all that misbehavior went into sort of responsibility. This is really painful. Yet somehow I wasn't able to explain.”

   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