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🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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0:00.0 | I wanted people to think I was interesting and so I had to pretend. |
0:04.4 | And the voice in my head, this ego kept saying I'm a piece of shit that I still really have a problem with |
0:12.0 | and I've got to get better at when you're in that |
0:14.8 | head space not much makes sense anymore and you have to start questioning |
0:20.4 | everything otherwise you just get stuck. The new path that I've forged, which isn't necessarily as mainstream and isn't as shiny or celebrated or whatever, but I can be truly me. |
0:32.8 | And there's room to move and there's room to change. |
0:35.6 | It feels liberating. Bern Cotton. To me she's the definition of authenticity and she absolutely exudes |
0:50.1 | self-awareness and wisdom because she spent the last 10-20 years understanding herself. |
0:57.6 | She went through this remarkable journey of entering the public spotlight at just 15 years old |
1:01.4 | where she started working on TV and up until her 30s where she worked on BBC's radio one |
1:06.7 | She remained front and center in British media |
1:10.0 | But behind the scenes something else was going on. |
1:13.5 | Feeling like she wasn't being true to herself and she was living someone else's life, |
1:17.5 | like she was wearing a mask. |
1:19.5 | It all came to a head in her early 30s where she realized that something had to change. If her panic attacks |
1:25.7 | and her depression was to end, she had to make big life changes. And this meant leaving her job in pursuing a completely different uncertain |
1:36.4 | unknown path. Her story is remarkable but this conversation was so |
1:41.8 | incredibly valuable because Fern is wise. |
1:45.1 | She's done the work. And as she sits here today, she's able to tell us, to tell me, to tell you |
1:50.5 | the listener, how to avoid making some of the mistakes that she made in her life |
1:54.8 | so that we can all get to our own very happy place. |
1:59.2 | Without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening but if you are then please keep this to yourself. One of the things that I've got from reading about you, reading about your story and reading your books was how self-analyical and self-aware you've become as the years have gone by and it's pretty much central to a lot of what you do is really |
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