Michael Douglas | Apologies, Forgiveness and Learning to Speak your Truth
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
I'm just going to say it, I'm a fully signed-up Michael Douglas super fan after this conversation. He's a hairdresser and entrepreneur with over 35 years in the beauty industry, and how Michael and I have never 'properly' met despite our years in the same space is beyond me but thank goodness we put that right by 'meeting' for this conversation.
It's not an exaggeration to say that a lot of what Michael said really stayed with me after we spoke; his thoughts on karma, forgiveness and apologising gave me pause for thought and were really helpful in helping me get clarity on some of my own 'life stuff'.
We covered a lot of ground in this chat and perhaps what I loved the most was that he was happy to answer anything, to explore any subject in a way that was unguarded and very real.
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| 0:00.0 | Hairdresser and entrepreneur Michael Douglas joins me in this episode for a conversation that navigates risk, how to overcome obstacles, how to really forgive, |
| 0:15.0 | and how to know when and how to apologize. |
| 0:18.0 | There's this saying called the weakness of your strengths, which is this very kind of weird paradoxical thing, which is you have these amazing |
| 0:27.2 | strengths but buried within them is all this weakness. |
| 0:30.1 | I mean I probably owe somebody an enormous apology you know and I probably isn't a day goes by where I don't think about that |
| 0:41.6 | but I can't think of a way of doing it that wouldn't make things worse. Truly wholeheartedly |
| 0:48.1 | believe the answer lies within you. Probably raising kids was probably the biggest challenge of all you know |
| 0:54.1 | because you you think that they're born a blank canvas and they're not I think I |
| 0:59.1 | lied quite a lot in the past I lied to myself I lied to other people, little lies, you know, just little things. |
| 1:05.0 | And I thought, I'm not going to say what you want me to say, because I don't agree with it. |
| 1:11.0 | I don't get away with anything and neither does anybody else. So I think |
| 1:14.2 | punishment is already out there taking place. So you should feel safe in the knowledge that if |
| 1:19.6 | somebody's behaved accordingly, they will pay a price for it. I don't doubt that for a second. |
| 1:25.0 | My guest today is the hairdresser and entrepreneur Michael Douglas. |
| 1:30.0 | He is a hugely respected name in the beauty world |
| 1:33.2 | Fame for his accessible and informative hair advice and now his range of hair tools MD London |
| 1:38.8 | Michael shared his beauty problem solvers on an Instagram live with me recently and his insights and |
| 1:43.6 | tips on how to look after style and get the most out of hair have completely |
| 1:47.8 | changed my approach to blow drying the products I use and crucially the effect |
| 1:52.2 | and looks I've been able to achieve his advice was |
| 1:54.9 | genuinely outstanding and while we do talk about the usual suspects of risk and |
| 1:59.4 | how to push your boundaries so you go beyond your comfort zone without freaking yourself out in this |
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