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My custom week is Jane Angardia, CEO of Virgin Money.

She is arguably the most influential female banker in the UK.

And one very few women in the top flight of finance, a situation she's working hard to change.

A couple of years back, she led a government review into why the financial world seems so simple.

In her own small way, her mother was something of an equality pioneer back in Birmingham in the 1950s.

She was one of the very first female bank tellers.

My castaway, as an only child, says she was very tall, awkward and bullied at school.

As a grown-up, she's been frank about her struggle with postnatal depression.

Reasons perished by the fact that she was a young woman, and she was a young woman,

and she was a tall, awkward and bullied at school.

As a grown-up, she's been frank about her struggle with postnatal depression.

Reasons perhaps why she's a supporter of the mental health awareness charity, heads together.

She says everything in my life has been an accident.

And the only reason it happened is that I've always been excited to go through a door that hasn't been open before.

Taking opportunities has always been something I've loved, and it hasn't let me down yet.

So welcome, Jane Ann.

As far as going through these doors that were never opened before, every successful career needs a bit of, you know, we can call it good luck, fate, whatever.

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