Moment 24 - Mary Portas on Finding Your Truth When You’re Feeling Lost

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 10 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.

It’s becoming more and more apparent that in the modern world, many people are losing touch with who they really are. The systems of society which we live in today are turning us away from our truths and toward becoming who we think we’re supposed to be.

Like many others, Mary Portas was once one of those people. The high street queen had it all, and yet she admits something was missing.

In this moment clip, Mary reveals how she lost herself, and thankfully, how she found her truth.

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Mary:
https://twitter.com/maryportas
https://www.instagram.com/maryportasofficial/

Transcript

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0:00.0	You say that having it all and having more stuff we thought that was it, which leads me
0:08.4	into something else I wanted to talk to you about.
0:10.6	I read you said that you were in the public eye and you're making more money than ever,
0:14.1	and it was extraordinarily exciting, but at the age of 48 you found yourself crying almost
0:19.0	every day.
0:20.0	It was probably physically exhausted.
0:25.0	I just didn't get that joy, you know. I just was on this, I was doing TV shows, radio
0:33.0	shows, I had my own collection, I had the business, I had two kids, and there were parts that
0:40.0	that was just, you know, incredible.
0:42.1	I looked back and it was some great years, but I was exhausted.
0:46.0	And you're not allowed to say that, actually, I was thinking about that.
0:49.7	At that time there would be those, you know, women on the front of the Sunday Times magazine
0:54.4	like that, we can't show our pose, but we like that.
0:56.8	You can have it all.
0:57.8	They've got eight kids and they would get up and they would be doing, you know, yoga
1:01.8	at 6am and then having a global call with China or whatever, then, you know, they'd be
1:07.2	dropping the kids off at school while chatting to Goddodos, whoever sorting out the day,
1:12.3	and you just thought, oh God, how shit is that life?
1:16.6	Where are you?
1:17.6	Where are you?
1:19.0	And I lost me in that.
1:21.7	There wasn't times where it wasn't fantastic.
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