Cleaning a Dirty Business! | Antoinette Daniel
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm in an industry that is renowned for exploitation, but I think what I've learnt from life and my story with God is that it's not my job to know the end point. |
| 0:11.0 | It's my job to take the first step and get moving down this road. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome everybody, this is Simon Gilbo with Inspired and I'm very excited this week to have Antoinette Daniel with us. |
| 0:23.9 | Antoinette and I go back, I think it's 11 years to All Nations. We met All Nations, didn't we? Welcome, Antoinette. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi, everyone. So to give a bit an introduction on Antoinette, she's the founder of a company called Just Helpers, |
| 0:36.4 | which is an ethical London-based cleaning agency, |
| 0:39.0 | specialising and providing cleaning and concierge services for executive homes like the Bishop of London |
| 0:43.4 | and the Rothschild family. And she's been featured, I was thrilled to see this, in the Metro |
| 0:47.8 | and Good Housekeeping magazine. So justice and empowerment is at the heart of what you do, |
| 0:52.5 | is in Antoinette. And this year, your mission has been to challenge the pay and economic is at the heart of what you do, isn't it, Antoinette? And this year, |
| 0:54.8 | your mission has been to challenge the pay and economic structures of the cleaning industry. Small, |
| 0:59.4 | small vision. I love that. So that every client in the UK can have a clean home and a clean |
| 1:05.8 | conscience. I love the way you put that. Alternatively, we could talk about you as you're a former P teacher, |
| 1:11.9 | but now you're an entrepreneur with a passionate about justice in general being done, |
| 1:17.0 | particularly in the areas of, well, what we just addressed. And at the moment, you're in the process |
| 1:22.2 | of radically transforming the cleaning industry to enable cleaning colleagues to be paid equitably, |
| 1:28.0 | working rights and conditions to be more rigorously monitored. |
| 1:30.8 | Laws change to enable ethical agencies to operate more ably and clients, homes and offices |
| 1:35.9 | clean to a consistently high standard. |
| 1:39.0 | And in your spare time, you just love walking by the sea and sitting in your favorite |
| 1:42.2 | chair watching the world go by. |
| 1:43.7 | So that gives people a bit of a picture of you. |
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