Mary Portas - How To Stop Living A Life That Isn't True To You

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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My guest this week is Mary Portas. You may know Mary from the high street, from business, or you may know her as the red bob, hard exterior business woman from the TV. In this conversation today I saw a very different one to the one I’ve seen in the media. Mary Portas is an English retail consultant and broadcaster, known for her retail and business-related television shows, founding her creative agency Portas and her appointment by David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, to lead a review into the future of Britain's high streets. She’s worked in various retail roles: John Lewis and Harrods, Topshop. Then creative director at Harvey Nichols – which was her rise to fame. In 1997 launched an agency called Yellow Door producing campaigns for clients including Clarks, Louis Vuitton, Oasis Stores, Swarovski, Dunhill, Boden, Thomas Pink, Patek Philippe and Mercedes-Benz, Sainsbury's, Habitat, Westfield, Liberty and The Body Shop. In 2013 she re-launched her agency as Portas Agency Ltd. Today, Portas Agency advises retail clients from every continent, and the businesses success is built on an obsessive understanding of human and cultural behaviour. Today she’ll talk about an idea thats fairly radical to some people, especially people that are building or have built big businesses which is based on her new book ‘Rebuild: How to thrive in the new Kindness Economy’. This conversation is incredible, Mary is hilarious, she is smart and she is kind. On top of all that her brutal honesty blew me away which is a central part of what we spoke about, the idea of being true to yourself or facing the inevitable of ending up in disappear. Mary’s been a public figure, a media star, she’s faced public scrutiny but through it all she’s emerged as this levelled headed, down to earth, warm hearted individual. I laughed, I realised and I was deeply inspired and you will be too. Follow Mary: Twitter - https://twitter.com/maryportas Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/maryportasofficial Mary’s book - Rebuild: How to thrive in the new Kindness Economy - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08V85WGNK Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I like a really good life and I have a very good life.
0:05.0	I knew I was a bit different as well though, you know, you felt different.
0:09.0	I did feel different. I was doing TV shows, radio shows, I had my own collection, I had the business, oh God, how
0:17.8	shit is that life?
0:19.5	And I lost me in that.
0:21.2	There wasn't times where it wasn't fantastic, there was, but where was I? I didn't stop to breathe.
0:28.8	We've really fucked this planet for you guys. We were blind, we were blind consumers living a life while we
0:35.0	slowly killed the planet and our well-being. So it has to be you guys that go no.
0:40.1	My mother died when I was very suddenly of encephalitis when I was 16 and she was the
0:46.9	center of the world and I had to grow up very quickly and all that misbehavior went into sort of responsibility.
0:55.4	This is this is really painful yet somehow I I wasn't able to express that. Mary Portus, you may know her from the high street.
1:10.0	You may know her from the high street. You may know her from business or you may know her from her books.
1:15.7	But the experience I had with her today is honestly incredible.
1:19.6	She is hilarious. She is smart. She's, and she is willing to be honest at all costs.
1:26.5	And that really speaks to one of the central principles she'll talk about today,
1:30.3	which is this idea of the importance of being true to yourself.
1:34.7	She's made the mistake that 99% of people that are listening to this
1:38.3	are going to make, are currently making or are in the process of overcoming, which is living a life that isn't true to who you actually are.
1:47.0	And today she's also going to tell you about an idea that will be fairly radical to some people,
1:51.0	especially people who are building and have built big businesses, which is based on her new book, Rebuild,
1:57.0	How to Thrive in the new kindness economy.
2:01.0	She has achieved things that most people in business would never even dream of.
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