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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 14 - Grace Beverley On What It Takes To Build A Business

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

Grace Beverley has built two multi-million pound businesses but what did it really take to get there? We see all the good stuff, the instagram posts, the headlines but we never hear this side.

Building a business isn’t always as glamorous as everyone makes it out to be. In this candid clip from the podcast Grace reveals what it truly takes to build a business.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You've got two businesses, two key businesses.

0:07.7

And when you run a business, when you're young, irrespective of age, you undergo a couple

0:12.7

of things, real like unexpected chaos at any given moment, then also a tremendous amount

0:16.4

of sacrifice.

0:17.4

I actually wanted to start on the sacrifice piece because I don't think people, as you

0:20.6

said earlier, get to fully see the full picture of sacrifice and cost, both personal and

0:25.9

professional and whatever.

0:27.2

So talk to me about some of the sacrifice that even you didn't expect before you got

0:31.9

into business and before your business grew.

0:36.0

I think that at the same time as I kind of benefited hugely from having money at university,

0:45.6

for example, I also went to university expecting one thing and then actually sent it, essentially

0:53.0

getting up at X hour working on university stuff because I never ever, ever wanted to

0:58.5

give them an excuse to think that I wasn't concentrating fully on my university and

1:02.8

then working all the way, essentially, way into the night to get the other stuff done.

1:08.6

And I also, you know, that comes with being high profile that comes with all of these

1:12.5

things.

1:13.5

So I guess one of those things was very much like there was the time and the life experience

1:18.3

and all of that, that because things took off quickly at one stage, even if it wasn't

1:23.9

like it wasn't that the businesses took off, you know, the businesses have done much

1:27.5

more over the past year and a half or whatever when I haven't been at uni.

1:31.2

But at that point, you know, the high profile, all of that, that came with, I guess, different

1:38.7

tool I was expecting and, or not what I was expecting, I wasn't expecting it at all.

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