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The Futur with Chris Do

071 - Interior Designer, True Entrepreneur, Queen of Taupe — with Kelly Hoppen

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered what it’s like to design for David and Victoria Beckham? And how do you go about designing a private jet or personal yacht? Well, todays guest has done all those things and then some. In this episode, Chris talks with acclaimed interior designer, Kelly Hoppen. Kelly is a world-renowned designer and prolific author of nine design books. She and Chris discuss her creative path, the blessing of growing up without the internet, and what it takes to be a true entrepreneur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I think from that moment on I didn't look for confirmation that it was okay for what I was doing.

0:05.4

There was a kind of, you know, a light switch that just went, okay, I'm going to do this because I love it rather than waiting for someone to pat me on the back. I'm going to do. Hey,

0:35.0

how everybody, welcome to the future podcast.

0:39.0

I'm your host Chris Doe,

0:41.0

and I'm joined as always with the ever dependable Greg gun.

0:43.7

Greg what's up?

0:44.7

Hey I've gone from trustee to dependable.

0:47.7

I like...

0:48.7

Yeah yeah no I like this path we're on though. This makes me feel good.

0:52.8

Okay.

0:53.4

So who do we have on the podcast today?

0:55.2

Well, we have world famous internationally renowned interior designer

0:58.9

Kelly Hopin.

0:59.7

She's a member of the British Empire.

1:01.8

That sounds incredible.

1:03.0

Yeah.

1:04.0

She's South African, but now resides in the UK.

1:06.0

Oh, okay.

1:07.0

And that's where she calls home.

1:08.0

And it's really wonderful to talk to her because at a very young age,

1:12.0

she figured out that she wasn't good with school she was

1:15.0

dyslexic and they didn't know what that was back then and she just fell in love with

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