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Working Hard, Hardly Working

Ep. 66 Lydia Millen: The Inside Story

Working Hard, Hardly Working

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Ceos, Unknown, Feminsim, Advice, Self-improvement, Business, Women In Business, Stories, Education, Marketing, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Ceo, Women Leaders, Money, Careers, Success

4.4738 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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0:00.0

It's the first customer of the day.

0:02.0

The unexpected 20% tip and the 100% boost to your confidence.

0:07.0

Business is a numbers game and sum up has the tools you need to stay ahead.

0:12.0

With tap to pay, you can accept contactless payments using just your smartphone.

0:17.0

And with our free business account, you can manage all things money with zero hassle all in one place.

0:24.4

Make it count with SumUp. Download the app or find out more at sumup.com.uk.

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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