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Patricia Bright

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first: 2021-08-02
most recent: 2021-08-02
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“It wasn't that pivotal, but it's quite hard when you're at uni and like your friends are off doing stuff and like meeting people and then you don't have anything to do or they're not talking to you. It feels like a big thing in real life. It's really not a big thing. But at the time, it was like, I'm so lonely. I'll go on”
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“Fact. Yes, definitely. I didn't have like a huge social life after a while after the fallout. And I had so much solace with just this online community. I never felt lonely because I could log in and there'd be someone on there and I could read all the forum updates and talk to the girls who were into the things that I was into. They were all over the world. It was just really nice to like have friends.”
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“Honestly, length of time, like I was just doing it for a really long time. And I was very transparent. Like I was so transparent. I was putting a lot of information out there. I wasn't that strategic with it, but I loved talking to people online. Like they were literally my friends. And I used it a bit like an online diary in a way very earlier on. It wasn't like a full-time thing. I was like interning and working. But I think eventually I got really strategic about it. And that's when I saw like more growth or huge growth.”
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“Yeah, that was like mind blowingly amazing. And then there was Michelle Farn. She was like the main beauty girl that was really killing it. So it was such a small little ecosystem that wasn't a business, but it was genuinely about like connecting and talking to other people online.”
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“It wasn't a thing at the time of me watching YouTube and kind of creating on the platform, there wasn't actually that many people on there. And so like little artists could go viral and there'd be like there was a song Chocolate Rain. I don't know if you guys remember that.”
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“Blogging of vlogging, I kind of went into it because I kind of had like a friendship fallout And I became a bit of a loner. Like, I didn't have a big social group. People would go out without me and I would live with a group of girls and they'd all go out together and I'd be like left at home by myself. So I found like online communities. So I was part of different forums. Before Reddit was Reddit, before YouTube existed, they were like forums where girls would talk to each other about beauty and makeup. And I'd spend hours like writing to these girls across the world and sending them pictures. And they're used to before Instagram. There was Fotky. There was all these platforms where we were communicating. And then some of the girls would send videos to each other of like their new hair and their new makeup, like so random. And then YouTube had just launched. It was like, this is a great way to send videos to each other. And so I kind of got sucked up in communicating with all the people that I met online.”
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“Chanel bag or some shit. Exactly. But like, I grew up on a council estate and then my mom bought her council house for 17 grand, sold that house for 250 grand, used that money to buy it to build a property empire. And that's how she ended up retiring. So when I was in Manchester, I was actually, my mum bought like four houses in Manchester. So I was doing property management while being a student. So I was still like running business-y stuff as a student. So even though I had that came from the council background, I'd seen kind of like.”
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“Maybe it was just me. Maybe I was just like young and dumb, but it helped me from a career perspective. But a lot of the financial courses out there don't help people be better themselves with money.”
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“Not a clue. I owe the tax amount money. I got my taxes wrong. I had to pay fines. I had no clue what I was actually doing. I had the degree. I had the T1. Great, you've passed. How do you actually apply financial knowledge to running your own business, to your everyday personal taxes? I don't have a clue spent the money, bought bags, made extra money on the side, spent it all owe the tax man and I wasn't prepared.”
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“Okay, so the moving role was pivotal for my life. Like it set me up on a completely different trajectory that I wouldn't have even been aware of because off the back of that role I worked at, you know, all the top four companies in the world in finance. I worked at Merrill Lynch and Deloitte Consulting, banks, all of that stuff. I would have never done that if I'd stayed in fashion. When it came to her from a personal finance perspective, didn't prepare me at all.”
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“And crash in with a number of girls in that main campus. And I would move from room to room. So once one friend got annoyed of me after two weeks, another friend, I'd stay with them for two weeks and then I'd just go back and forth like a nomad for a bit.”
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“I wasn't there, right? In this spot. It was great. And I'm in Didsbury, or I was like, come on. And I actually ended up moving out of my halls of residence.”
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“Because I'd never left London and I'd like I had to make new friends and I didn't know anyone and I wasn't really good at it and I couldn't really find my tribe very early on and I was on a campus really far away. I was on the Didsbury campus.”
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“It's standoffish, but caring, and when they ask you certain questions, whether it's about the wet weather or your studies, how is your studies going? They don't really know what else to ask you. But them asking you that is powerful. My dad calls me every day and says, hi, how are you? Fine dad, how are the kids? Find dad.”
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“What stoic African dad. So I remember he always gave me an envelope with money at the beginning of term, like, well done, look after yourself. Okay, how's the weather? Are you reading your books? Yes, dad, yes, dad. Okay, good. Like it was that kind of relationship, but I knew it was still caring. It was the way he kind of communicated his care for me, which is that envelope of cash.”
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“It was It was so weird. It's like, this is my dad. Hi, dad. How do we have a relationship with a man we haven't seen for seven years? But, you know, he was the kind of.”
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“Oh, am I not pissed off? Maybe I haven't processed it enough to be pissed off. It just felt like it is what it is and this is how it went. I felt more upset for my mom in that I know how difficult it was for her to like have us and have responsibilities and deal with like managing this court case she managed it her entire self. She represented herself because she didn't have money for like lawyers and stuff. So she was under a lot of stress, but she did it and she did other stuff as well. So that was really the main thing that kind of upset me, I'd say.”
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“Yes. So by the time I was about 12, he came back. Took seven years for you guys to do that, but he got back and like he just started again, worked as a security guard, did all of that kind of stuff, and then ended up working in the home office. For immigration, which is so random because he was deported.”
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“Purely on that basis. I didn't love my course. And then when they were doing internship opportunities, they were paying interns 8K a year, 10K a year, and like graduate starting salaries were like 8K. And I was like, I'm not rich enough to do this. No way. And then I found out about accounting and finance. And they were like the banks that had really good opportunities. And I was really good at the accounting because we had a module in the fashion marketing. And I smashed it and I was like, I'll do accounting and finance.”
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“Great, yeah. Yeah, no, I went to university after like leaving home and I was so ready to get out of my house and get out of London and try something new and then find myself in a new city. I actually went in to do fashion marketing and to my parents' despair because again, as an African, you don't do fashion. That's not a real course. You do accounting. You do law. You do business. You don't do fashion marketing. But I think I've always had this kind of more creative or creative streak as well as rebellious streak as well. Like I'm going to do what I want to do. But funny, I kind of went there to do fashion, but changed my course to accounting and finance. Because I realized that there was no financial hope in fashion. I was like, oh, I'm not going to be broke when I leave university. Hell no. So I changed.”
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“So my first thought is like I roll. Like, oh, there you go, moaning or complaining. But I also realized that there's so many different types of privileges that people have that can actually provide them like a long-term foundation. I think that some people have financial privilege, but they have no love. They have no hope. They have no one to tell them that they're good. Whereas I've had the financial privileges, but I had a mom who was so loving and so caring and so encouraging that I was in a better position just because I had that. So I don't want to ever tell someone that you're privileged because of XYZ. Maybe in other areas they didn't have the support that they needed to actually spur them on to be the best version of themselves. So I try not to be that judgmental anymore because there's so many different categories. Of privilege.”
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“No, it makes me really objective. Like I'm a pure realist, like something's probably going to go wrong at some point in time, and that's fine How are you going to handle that? It's almost like I prepare for something to go wrong in a way. This is like a therapy session.”
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“Yeah, but I think for me, maybe mine was that I can't rely on the system or other people to secure my safety, maybe. And so I kind of am always trying to make sure I secure myself with the actions that I take because those are the only things I'm in control of. So I'm very much like, I'll do it myself. I'll sort out myself. Don't worry because you never know what's going to happen there and like that as a person.”
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“Yeah, exactly. I mean, I didn't even realize that it could have been teaching me something. Like no idea. Maybe that Stuff happened. That's life. You're not really in control of anything. But things like that can't stop you.”
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“Like hustling, that's fun, but there was also maybe this thing here that was one of my drivers that I've actually used in a positive way, but it's also important to kind of reflect on like dealing with things like that. And I think that I came from a place of it happened. That just happened. It's fine. On to the next. Whereas like when you sit down and talk about it, you're like, oh, that's not great. Five years old.”
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“I didn't even recognize it. I knew that there was like I work really hard. Like I'm really intense and I'm always like, let's just keep going. I'm always like that. And until I literally, you know, started to have therapy. I was like, where does that come from? And it was that then got uncovered in my therapy sessions that actually maybe one of the triggers for me like working hard was because of that maybe fear of loss. And obviously there's other aspects as well. I just”
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“At nighttime, it might have been at night, it might have been in the middle of the day, to be honest. What I do remember is literally about four burly police officers kind of walking in, shouting like screaming. Like, and there's me as a five-year-old, my sister as a three-year-old, my mum in tears, and then literally dragging my dad out of the house. And it was like your dad's gone. Like at that one moment and we didn't see him again for seven years afterwards. So it was like at the time, I never processed it. It's only in the last year or two I've processed how kind of maybe traumatic that kind of experience would have been for me as a child. And I think it's also made me really be fearful of loss, which is why I work so hard so that things like that don't happen hopefully to me and my family in the future.”
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“Yeah, but what's really also really interesting is that some people still feel lucky. The fact that she wasn't deported when my dad was deported, she probably felt, oh my God, I'm so lucky. I got to kind of stay here. And why would you complain when you feel like you're in a better position for yourself and your children in the long term? So yeah, she didn't have the privilege of wanting to complain. But I think she was really like happy to still be here, though she had to work hard. I think she knew that she had a lot of opportunity while being here and she betrayed and she became a nurse and then she bought properties and then she retired in her 40s. Like I love England in that it's kind of like the land of opportunity for those who really want to like, you know, work out what to do and use it. So I think she could see that that was possible for her.”
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“Oh, there was no complaining. She just got on with it. Like, even when my dad was deported, she just got on with it. And there were times that, you know, growing up, my mum used to work on the trains. So she was one of the train cleaners. And my sister's three and I'm five should go out at night and leave us because there was no one to look after her kids, should go out, she'll clean, she'll clean offices, she'll take us to offices to clean the offices when we were younger. And she just did it and we'll go to school and she would say, like, just don't tell anyone that you're working at five o'clock in the morning. Obviously, you're not going to go to school and tell people, oh, I've just been at Foxton's like cleaning and helping my mum out. You just go to school in the morning and at like everything was normal. But no, there wasn't any complaining and she just kind of got on with it.”
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“Opinion now, but somehow she kind of achieved those things. And I would feel very privileged to kind of grow up with that sense of confidence instilled in me, which I think is really cultural as an Ajerian.”
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“I think it's that kind of aggression. There's something about Nigerians out of all other people from, say, the diaspora that I think means that we're quite aggressive and very passionate. Let's not say aggressive. Let's say passionate. We're intense. We know what we want. And there's also a huge sense of pride as well that we can do anything and we're good. And I feel very privileged that I had a lot of that. You're great, you'll do well, you'll be successful. Don't worry about what's going on. Don't see reality as a definition of a limitation for yourself. And I think that that's really made me do a lot of things that supposedly I shouldn't be able to do, but that kind of upbringing made me be like, no, I can do it. It's fine. It was always fine. I watch my mum do a lot of things that would be considered impossible for her. And she just did it with ease and chaos.”
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“Yeah, I had both my mum and dad growing up, but my dad was actually deported. So he got deported when I was probably like six years old and I actually remember the experience of his deportation as being something very traumatic in hindsight as an adult, I recognized that. But growing up, you know, with an African mom, African dad, our culture was just a part of us on an everyday basis, but also I was from South London as well. So I kind of grew up in Battersea and I came from a very diverse school, but I always went back to like a very African home. And yeah, I think it really shaped me to who I am today.”
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“Growing up, my mum should take us to offices to clean the offices, and we'll go to school, and she would say, like, just don't tell anyone that you're working at 5 o'clock in the morning. You just go to school in the morning and act like everything was normal. There is pressure for influencers to speak up on every topic all the time, bearing in mind that my forte is makeup and clothing and financed, you know, to an extent, but we are not credible sources who know everything. We just don't. And I think it's really important for us to say, speaking up on stuff that you know nothing about is very, very dangerous. I had a stalker for like three years and it was someone who would like just messaged me on all my platforms constantly, send emails, message family members. I didn't meet and greet an event. And then they messaged me. He's like, ha ha, I was at your meeting greet. So I remember feeling so anxious you didn't see me. You looked so terrible in person.”
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