Kierra Campbell | Not taking 'No' for an Answer, Surviving a Challenging Childhood and Being a good mum.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Kierra Campbell blew me away with her honesty in this episode. She really is what dream guests are made of; honest, willing to go to uncomfortable, sometimes difficult places, but always keen to make sure listeners have a great time and hopefully come away with something useful for their time spent with us.
Kierra is one half of interior design duo Poodle & Blonde and we meet her when she's poised to make some serious changes in her life and though it's a lot of change at once, she's seeing it as a sign that she's ready for growth and new adventures. It's a refreshing and reassuring attitude and one I intend to emulate next time I feel overwhelmed.
During our time together Kierra shared her life lessons learned from a difficult, unstable childhood, navigating the business world as an young, black female entrepreneur and how her business and business partner taught her how to trust...
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode I'm speaking to Interior's expert and entrepreneur Kira Campbell of Poodle and Blond. |
| 0:12.4 | Being in Mike I'm going through entrepreneur Kira Campbell of Poodle and Blond. |
| 0:13.0 | Feeling like I'm going through almost preparation for greater things. |
| 0:18.0 | So like you reach these heights you've all comfortable and then suddenly it gets scary and posture syndrome kicks kicks in and that's kind of what's going on but in every avenue. |
| 0:26.0 | This is something I've been working for like two years stripping back what I want to teach my daughter |
| 0:31.0 | and but without having to go through the life I went through. Okay so my |
| 0:35.1 | childhood was just kind of bad from the get-go and so my mother was an addict and my father has been in prison since I was two. |
| 0:47.0 | Both parents, like honestly thank God I wasn't raised by them because it just wouldn't have been healthy but I'll always think |
| 0:53.6 | what can I do before I'm like licking elsewhere for helping support and I had one |
| 0:58.2 | interview and I was like I thought I smashed it I was was so confident, I got a no. |
| 1:03.7 | And it just triggered something in me. |
| 1:05.3 | And I was like, I am not okay right now to just have no's. |
| 1:10.2 | And I didn't go to college, so I'm just like a little silly lamb I just couldn't take it seriously |
| 1:16.3 | I wouldn't have hired me I'll be honest I think I come across like that anyway especially like every |
| 1:21.5 | workplace I've worked in I've always been the only black girl, so it's very easy to look like the sassy one, the aggressive one, like you expect that anyway. |
| 1:30.0 | This episode of the Emmagan show is brought to you in partnership with the Twining Sleep blend, |
| 1:35.0 | the perfect partner for your evening wind-down routine. |
| 1:38.8 | Sleep is a topic that has come up repeatedly on this |
| 1:43.0 | because sometimes getting a good night sleep can feel so hard. |
| 1:45.0 | For a while now, I've been mindful to have a wind-down routine, |
| 1:48.0 | maybe in the hour or half an hour before I get into bed where I shift down my mental, emotional and physical gears |
| 1:55.2 | so that my mind, body and soul feel ready to rest and I avoid those infuriating sleep disruptions. |
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