How Trinny Woodall deals with rejection: Learning from failure and feedback
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Are you more confident in your work life than in your personal life? Or vice versa? Entrepreneur and beauty & fashion icon Trinny Woodall is aware of where she needs to build her own self-worth.
In this chat, Fearne and Trinny explore everything that comes with being the founder and CEO of Trinny London, being brazen enough to back your own ideas to women earning more than their male partners.
Plus, Trinny is candid about her business endeavours that went pretty sideways, and explains how to be direct in asking for feedback without fear of rejection.
Trinny is also open about the huge moments that changed her life, including her time in rehab and dealing with grief.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank chat about suicide, so do take care while listening.
In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start, this episode contains some chat you might find difficult to hear. So do check the show notes if you think that might be you. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello and a huge welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. This is the show that meets you wherever you are in your emotional growth. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, I'm chatting to Trinny Woodall. Do I regret, I took drugs for 10 years. |
| 0:21.2 | There were circumstances in it I really were horrible, but I actually don't because it gave me such a depth of having to deal with life at an early age, some testing things, that it rounded me up more as a person. |
| 0:35.2 | So when I got into my 30s, I had a lot of experience to draw on to be resilient. |
| 0:42.2 | So thereby I don't regret that. |
| 0:44.9 | It happened and I should draw upon it. |
| 0:47.5 | How are you enjoying your summer so far, you lovely lot? |
| 0:49.8 | We're in the summer holidays. |
| 0:51.2 | Kids are off. |
| 0:51.9 | The juggle is real. |
| 0:53.9 | I feel like I've already done all of time out in the first week they Kids are off. The juggle is real. I feel like I've already done all of |
| 0:55.7 | time out in the first week they've been off school. God help me. We've done the aquarium. |
| 1:01.1 | We're off to a museum where there are planes with my parents next week. So we'll see how that |
| 1:10.0 | goes down. One kid excited, one not fussed, but you can't win them all. But I think we are, we're sort of one step away in my house from getting the egg boxes out to try and just make shit out of egg boxes. Because how? How do we keep more screens? How? For six weeks? It's so hard. I mean, we're not going to, is the key. |
| 1:28.4 | What we need to do is give ourselves a break because sometimes you've got to let them go on the PS5 |
| 1:34.3 | so you can like have a wee and clean the kitchen. |
| 1:37.9 | So it's balance, isn't it? It's a bit of everything. |
| 1:41.5 | But I hope your summer is okay so far. |
| 1:45.1 | If you are perhaps having a little moment to yourself while the kids are on screens, |
| 1:49.6 | or if you haven't got kids, you're just having a nice walk in the sunshine, maybe. |
| 1:52.9 | Or maybe you're on your way to work, whatever you're up to. |
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