Letter To My Younger Self with Kanya King CBE, founder of the MOBO Awards

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This is a micro episode absolutely full of soul and one in which Kanya King CBE, founder of the MOBO awards shares a profound and heartfelt letter with her younger self.

Full of hard won advice, Kanya’s words are a lesson in self discovery, of what it means to look inwards and how that laser focus can be used to build your ideas and dreams.

This is your micro shot of inspiration and an episode that brings to life the transformative power of a simple letter.

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0:00.0	I would advise you to learn to trust yourself more and not allow fear or failure to hold you back.
0:07.2	Be bold, be brave, have confidence in yourself and invest time in being the best you can be as your father was often saying.
0:15.0	Hello I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Letters to my younger self, a beloved part of conversations of inspiration.
0:28.0	I wanted to bring you poignant moments from the many years of recording this podcast which has changed my life
0:35.8	drawing on the gracious vulnerability of my guests where we can absorb what I
0:41.0	believe are some of life's biggest learnings.
0:44.8	This micro podcast is brought to you by Royal Mail, a business who understands the power of
0:51.2	a simple letter.
0:58.0	Today we step into the world of Kanya King OBE, founder of the Mobo Awards,
1:00.0	a trailblazer in all sense of the word. This is a letter of love to our younger self and is the most
1:06.8	incredible story of how her formative years and experiences would go on to shape her purpose in life. I could literally
1:15.5	wax lyrical about this woman. She's a dynamic force of energy, the Duracelle
1:20.1	battery that we all need in our lives and this letter to her soul might just leave an incredible
1:26.1	mark on yours. Her letter is in fact so beautifully written the time and energy and effort
1:32.2	she poured into it and to share it with us all is
1:35.7	testament to her generosity of spirit that has embodied Kanya's life always.
1:41.0	When writing this intro after after re-listening to this episode, my
1:46.3	goodness my reaction to the letter when I first heard it live was as emotional as
1:51.4	I felt again today and so I hope you will permit me just this once
1:56.4	to leave you with my real-time reaction from this very special recording in 2020 rather than summarising it today.
2:05.0	I hand over to the one and only Kanya.
2:09.0	I'm writing this letter to my younger self to say that you have no idea how hard you're about to work, how much
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