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Molly Mae Hague

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  1. “This, you have to have the trust of your audience. So, what work we take on is honestly 1% of what comes in, less probably. I'm not even joking, 800 emails a day. Work coming in, it never stopped. She's on our emails from 5am going through work that comes in and it's, you have to turn down so much to earn that respect from the audience and earn that trust.”

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  2. “I think what you've just said is actually the key to why I've become successful in what I do is because it is so strict with what I do take on and what I don't take on. My days are planned out to like the nth degree like it is so particular what work I'm doing and everything is done with such thought and like such understanding behind it. Like I've never taken on work that I don't understand or posting things on my socials that I'm not 100% behind or using like I think that is the key to being successful in in this industry and influencing if you want to call it like it's it's knowing what you're doing and knowing what you're talking about is is gospel like you use those products you you stand behind what you're saying like I think that is why I have done well in what I and what I do because I am so believing in what I say and my followers know that like they they know that I'm not talking about something on my YouTube unless I use it unless I believe in it and that is the key to being successful”

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  3. “I think it is just believing in that Beyonce has the same 24 hours in a day that we do. And I just think you're given one life and it's down to you what you do with it. Like you can literally go in any direction. And when I've spoken about that before in the past, I have been slammed a little bit with people saying, you know, like it's easy for you to say that, you know, you've grown up and you've not grown up in poverty, you've not grown up, you know, with major money struggles. So for you to sit there and say that we all have the same 24 hours in a day, it's not correct. And I'm like, but technically what I'm saying is correct, we do. So I understand that obviously we all have different backgrounds and we're all raised in different ways and we do have different financial situations. But I think if you want something enough, you can achieve it. And it just depends to what lengths you want to go to get where you want to be in the future. And I'll go to any length. Like I've worked my absolute arse off to get where I am now. A lot of people don't think that and believe that, but...”

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  4. “Yeah, I've always been extremely confident. I've never ever struggled with my confidence. Even meeting new people, try new things. Like I've never, I've never felt unconfident in any situation, which I'm really blessed to have that. Even, you know, when I went on Love Island, like going to my auditions, super confident, always super confident in everything I do, everything I stand by, like I just have that confidence. And yeah, I'm lucky to have that because I think it's something that just comes. You can't really. On it, like it's either there or it's not, so yeah Confident person”

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  5. “I'd thought of at that point, I sort of missed out a part, I'd sort of start to grow following on Instagram and it was growing quite rapidly. And I'd found a management in Manchester. So I just thought, I'm just going to go up there and just see what happens. Like, what's the worst that can happen? And all sort of the fast fashion companies and everything was in Manchester at that point. It became like the new place to be. So I just thought, let's go, let's do it. And yeah, I went by myself. No one believed that I was going to do it. And I just did. And yeah, I definitely couldn't afford my rent. My mum was right. I think if I'd stayed there any longer, I probably would have to move back home at some point because I really couldn't afford my rent. I think it was like £900 a month and I was barely making £1,000 a month. So after my rent, I had about £100 to live on and a Starbucks at that point is what, five pounds. So, but yeah, no, what's the best thing I ever did? He's still in Manchester now and I don't plan on leaving. I love it.”

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  6. “We can do whatever we want with the 24 hours in the day that we're given. So, why the hell am I not going to go out and make the most of them and do crazy things and make the most, like as I said, make the most of it? So yeah, I think my parents having this very ordinary job. I mean, police officers, it's not necessarily that ordinary, but for me, it was like, it just terrified me. I was like, I don't want to have this life in Hitchen forever. I know that there's so much more to achieve. And I moved to Manchester when I was 18 and started my life there. I just moved out. I literally said to my mum one day, I walked down into the living room. I will never forget it. And I said, I found this flat on right move. And I'm moving to Manchester. And she was like, no, you're not. I was like, no, no, I'm going. She was like, you don't have enough money. I was like, I'll find it. Like, I'll make this work. And I literally went within a week and I was gone. I packed all my stuff up and I just left. And I moved to Manchester. And I remember the first night in my apartment in Manchester in Ancoats. I was like, what have I done? I was like, this was the worst move. I felt so homesick.”

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  7. “Your mum and dad lived very as police officers very solid lives and careers, right? Yeah. At that young age, did you, because I'm trying to understand from like a very young age, and I always ask this about myself, like, how much of it was this kind of innate desire to have more and be different and not live the standard life or how much of it is just following following the heart and seeing where it goes? I think for me, watching my parents have a very ordinary life, it sort of petrified me a bit. It was like a bit terrifying, this thought of, I don't want to grow up in this house. And when I'm old in my rocking chair, I tell my grandkids, you know, like I had this really ordinary life and I had an ordinary job. I had an ordinary income. Like that, it petrified me from, I think around, I reckon I started feeling that way from about 15. I realized like the world is literally our oyster.”

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  8. “Confidence, but I couldn't quite make it in that I tried auditions, I tried castings, all this, but I didn't quite have that, I wasn't quite there. And I sort of accepted that very quickly and realized to do well informing arts, you have to be the best. It's like the most cutthroat industry. People say fashion's cutthroat, no, performing arts is like, it's not an industry you mess around in. So I accepted quite quickly that that wasn't going to work for me. So fashion was where I focused on. And I really did think that I was going to end up being like a fashion buyer for like a large business or that's kind of what I wanted to do.”

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  9. “For two years, because I really wanted to pursue a career and fashion. All my friends sort of stayed on and went to sixth form and college, but I again, I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do something outside the box. So I had an interview at the fashion retail academy in London and I got a spot there and I ended up going there for two years and studying there. I was commuting to London every day. It's like 17. So yeah, it was outside my comfort zone, but I'm really glad I did that because it was just different. I love doing things that were different. And did you have a, because when I was younger, I wanted to be a dentist and a doctor and then a surgeon at one point. And then, you know, I bounced around and then I was like, I want to manage a business. Yeah. What were you saying to yourself in terms of what you would be when you were older, what you did, was it fashion? I think when I was younger, it was mainly performing arts. I've definitely got that performing arts streak in me. I think a lot of people that sort of fall into being in the public eye do have a bit of that performing art streak in them because they have.”

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  10. “When I say I have a sister that's in the army, because obviously it's so different to what I do. But I'm actually really proud of that. I think it's, I never really say that, but I'm super proud that she is who she is. And we've grown up to be such, such different people. But both parents were in the police. That was interesting growing up. Something else that I'm really proud of actually having two parents at police officers because I don't know, I quite liked her at school, like sort of being known as a police officer's kid. Like I kind of liked it. No one really messed with me. It was quite, yeah, like even at parties, like I think even a couple of times my dad actually, when I remember one time, my dad actually showed up to shut a party down that I was at. Oh, wow. Yeah. It was that kind of thing, having parents' police officers, but I didn't mind it. And at that age, when you're in Hitchen, what is it that you want to be when you grow up? Oh, God. I mean, I always wanted to be doing something different. I mean, I went to fashion school.”

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  11. “Ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett, and this is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. Where you grew up, right? Take me back to Hitchen. What was life like when you were growing up there? Hitchin, I actually still am extremely fond of Hitchin and it was a really, it's a really, really special place for me. I spent 18 years there growing up in a very normal house with a very normal family doing very normal things in a very normal school, not a private school or anything. It was just an extremely normal area to live in. I loved it and I got my first job there. I had a lot of first there and I think it will always hold a special place in my heart. I was a lifeguard there at a swimming pool for four years. I had a job in hairdressers. I worked in a gym. It was all going on in Hitchin. That's where it all began obviously is the air. Family dynamics, brothers and sisters, mum, dad, tell me about your family, what they do, who they are, what their character is. So I have one sister. She's actually in the army. She's three years older than me. People always shot.”

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  12. “One spot in terms of influence and having tens of millions of followers online, becoming a multimillionaire overnight, and being twenty two years old Imagine imagine the mistakes you would make It's absolutely fascinating and the way she deals with it I think you'll find incredibly inspiring and what comes with that success Recently her house was burgled and she reportedly lost eight hundred thousand pounds worth of her possessions and had to move immediately to a new home she now has to have twenty four seven close protection security and I'll be honest with you this is something Molly and her manager and team shared with me before we started recording Molly doesn't do interviews like this So this really is in many respects her first real in depth interview of this kind and I can't wait for you to hear it”

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  13. “Molly May. She is, in my opinion, and according to a lot of the data, the UK's number one Instagram influencer, creator right now. She started out many years ago on a show called Love Island, but many people have been on Love Island, and nobody ever has had the meteoric rise in their brand, their career, their profile like Molly has. So as much as it's easy to say, well, okay, you know, she had a boost from Love Island, that does not explain what's happened in her life subsequently. So I wanted to sit down with her today and find out exactly what's driving her, what's caused this meteoric success, almost ten million followers in no time at all, 25,000 new followers a day. Just imagine for a second, being thrust to the number.”

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  14. “The creative director of Pretty Little Thing. Like, I'm not just an influencer anymore. This is just the start for me. I'm only 22. I've got so much more to learn. We literally only are given one life. We have to just go to the extremes. I've worked my absolute ass off to get where I am now. A lot of people don't believe that, but I work. I spend time with my boyfriend and I go to bed. That is literally my life. I can't have anybody knowing where I live. I actually have close protection security now and really there's no price on feeling safe. That was like a really, really low moment for me. When we got back, it just felt cold and eerie and it just didn't feel like home anymore. So he could literally go away for weeks on end and there's not a doubt in my mind that if he was to be around a load of girls, I could sleep peacefully at night knowing that he's just, he's for me and I'm for him and that is literally the key. You've got to trust you've got everything. There's so much more to it than people see. They have no idea what really goes on. I mean, I would never say like I've had like a mental breakdown, but that was close to it because I just went crazy.”

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