Early 20s, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

That was the first knockdown.

Holly Tucker, ex-C CEO and founder of Not On the High Street.

Holly's story is mind-blowing.

We go and pitch the idea of Not on the high street to the land of VCs who would tell us that it was lovely that us women wanted to create a craft's website but really there was nothing in it. I just said well we're actually going to

change the face of retailing funny enough it's an old craft website we tried to build a

marketplace with no-tech experience but we knew what we wanted and so we found someone

who built the technology that eBay were building in America and we just

relaunched and we'd nailed it. How could I smile or laugh? I found myself becoming a

different version of me. One of the lines that Hollinko is bringing color to gray

and I think I was turning grey. Holly Tucker, ex-Ceeo and founder of Not on the High Street, one of the UK's most loved brands,

but a real pioneer in its space at its time. Holly's story is mind-blowing,

how she rose from someone that had no experience, didn't have huge amounts of capital,

at a time when women in business, especially women in tech, had it harder than anybody else. She built an online tech company that went on to be

worth hundreds and hundreds of millions. But her story isn't straightforward. It's

riddled with pain, divorce, heartbreak, turmoil, and having

to reinvent and refind herself time and time again. The fundamental life lessons that she shares today and that she

unpacks for us are life lessons based on problems that we're all going to

experience in our lives. It's a real joy to bring you this conversation and I want to

thank Holly for her openness, her intellect and her incredibly inspiring personality.

Without further ado, I'm Stephen Barlett and this is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then

please keep this to yourself.

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