Hello, I'm Georgie Corridge Cole, Shirlux's founder and CEO, and welcome to today's

In Conversation with Podcast.

I am just delighted to be joined by Rosemind Madhavji,

one of Dubai's most loved tastemakers, entrepreneurs, influencers, influencers, presenters,

to several amazing causes. You're really like the fairy godmother of the luxury industry in

the release on you. Well, first of all, welcome to Dubai. Thank you. And thank you so much for

having me. I feel like when you say that introduction, it just is a reflection about how old I am

or how much experience I'm bringing because I think, you know, I've been very lucky to work in different sectors

and I think that comes down to experience. We're very lucky to be sitting here talking to you today.

I'd love to start with you talking us through your incredible career. You've really done some

amazing things. You're involved in so many amazing causes.

You are really the godmother of luxury. But can you tell us a bit about your early life and

upbringing and what that was like? And your heritage. And my heritage. My family is from

East Africa, where Indian origin.

They had to leave East Africa due to, you know, back then we had Ediamine as a dictator,

and he told all the South Asians to leave.

At that point, my dad was finishing his master's and just started working in the UK.

My mom and my sister, my sister was three at that time.

And, you know, they lived in joint family households. And so, you know, my dad was trying to build this great life for my family. And so all of this happened in the early 70s. And so from

the UK, they all ended up from like East Africa, they all ended up

going to Canada. My dad left the UK and ended up joining them in Canada as well. And, you know, it was

actually the start of really having examples of people that work so hard and actually having

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