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Happy Place

Holly Tucker MBE

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.615.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

She may have founded one of the biggest online retail success stories in British history, but Holly Tucker hasn't stopped dreaming big. In this inspiring chat with Fearne, she discusses the hard work that went into starting Not On The High Street, her new project Holly & Co, and the stresses that success has put on everyone involved.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the show where we all get to slow down, take a pause and be inspired by people who have been in tricky situations and lived to tell the tale.

0:12.0

And today telling her tale is the founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co, Holly Tucker, MBE.

0:19.0

I remember crying over Missing Harry's first steps, his first words.

0:24.0

You know, these moments that you go through or crying in the, you know, not station recovered. We hardly had a station recovered.

0:31.0

It was just a room that we happened to have stolen the key for. And we would go and cry in there so that nobody could see us.

0:38.0

Holly is one of the best business minds out there. If you're looking for a change of career or trying to grow your business, or just looking for some positivity right now, Holly is your woman.

0:51.0

News of the global climate crisis can leave us feeling helpless. Too much negativity can trigger our eco anxiety, leaving us paralyzed when we need to act.

1:02.0

This is why EONNEXT is in search of better news to power up for change.

1:07.0

Did you know the UK's first carbon capture plant, the key'd be three plant in North Lincolnshire, could remove 1.5 million tons of CO2 from the air every year.

1:19.0

If you're feeling impacted by eco anxiety, EONNEXT have created a range of resources, such as guided meditations or green noise soundscapes.

1:28.0

Just search power up for change in your podcasting app.

1:35.0

Right, should we do it? Here's the show.

1:48.0

I'm having one of those days, Holly. I can't even deal with today and we're not even at 10 o'clock.

2:08.0

It's just started badly.

2:10.0

My kids woke me up super early, went into the kitchen to put the TV on so I could have a chance to make a coffee and get the sky wouldn't work.

2:20.0

They're both going mad at me for half an hour while I was pressing every button on the sky box that just wouldn't work.

2:28.0

I've got my laptop out. Right, let's watch a movie on here. They couldn't choose a movie they both like, they're killing each other.

2:36.0

I mean, I've come up here just for some peace quite frankly, because that was not a good start to my day.

2:43.0

And you know, we're in, even though I just feel like we've been permanently in it, we're going into Mercury, retrograde.

2:50.0

No, I can't go back into all of that. We've already haven't we just come out of that and we're going back into it again.

2:55.0

No, I literally think we're going into it.

2:57.0

Yeah, but I don't mean that we want that because I've been in it for 10 weeks.

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