Ep. 66 Lydia Millen: The Inside Story
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 904 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
With over 3 million followers, Lydia Millen has been blogging for over a decade.
She very rarely does interviews, so I wanted to sit down with Lydia to get some insight into the woman behind the handle and dig into her life, her career & the criticism she's faced. She really opens up.
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| 0:32.5 | You've had a few controversies online. I don't know what you're talking about. |
| 0:36.8 | The Lydia Millen has been |
| 0:38.2 | blogging for over a decade. Lydia's story is full of twists and turns. She has often stayed quiet on |
| 0:44.8 | this and very, very rarely does interviews. My palms are really sweating. One of the things that I think |
| 0:49.8 | I've struggled the most with communicating online is my childhood. What were you like back then? |
| 0:55.0 | I've heard that you spent summers in Ibiza. |
| 0:57.0 | I had a job at Ibithrax, plastic, Eden. |
| 1:00.0 | I would go from one job to the other and then I'd go out and I'd party. |
| 1:03.0 | Where do you think that desire or enjoyment of earning money came from? |
| 1:07.0 | For me, it all links back to I learnt really early on that I couldn't depend on a lot of people. |
| 1:13.0 | How do you deal with the criticism? I've been on the receiving end of cancel culture. See, I've |
| 1:16.7 | lost count of how many times I've experienced it. I'm not about to feel sorry for myself. Do you think |
| 1:22.0 | you have like an online persona? Such a hard one, isn't it? Failing in the way that I did, I didn't know how to cope with it at the time, |
| 1:27.6 | and it flawed me. |
| 1:29.0 | I didn't know enough. |
| 1:30.1 | That's for the Long & Shores, |
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