Ruby Hammer MBE, beauty entrepreneur, on the beauty of embracing ageing and who we are
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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WHY YOU WILL ENJOY THIS EPISODE
- Far beyond makeup, this is a conversation about the power of knowing ourselves deeply
- Hear how, through embracing diversity and inclusivity, Ruby set a precedent for industry norms
- Ruby inspires us by living in the present moment, and making that matter, even in the toughest times
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| 0:00.0 | This week's guest is Ruby Hammer MBE, celebrated makeup artist, ambassador of the British Beauty Council, |
| 0:07.2 | and founder of Ruby Hammer Beauty. |
| 0:10.9 | She was the Ruby out of Ruby and Millie. Do you remember the Boots Own Brand that we used to love and was the makeup artist for the program The Clothes Show. Three decades in the industry and the thing that I'm |
| 0:26.5 | struck with that moved me to tears was Ruby's passion and just light and love for what she does but also I would say the younger |
| 0:39.0 | her who had these posters on her wall of makeup artists and then the journey that she |
| 0:44.8 | travelled almost with this young spirit bursting out of her at any point in time and |
| 0:51.4 | at 62 to be still within the industry as a makeup artist with |
| 0:57.1 | her new business. It just goes to show you that you can live a life, what you love earning a living touching souls all |
| 1:06.0 | over the world and leave a legacy spend the whole of your life doing what you love. |
| 1:12.8 | And this conversation I've just personally taken so much away from it, |
| 1:17.7 | but the number one thing I've taken away |
| 1:20.0 | is that when I looked at the 62 year old woman, I saw her little younger self still within her, |
| 1:27.5 | burning in her, twinkle in our eye, and it's just, I'm never going to forget that. Enjoy. |
| 1:34.0 | Bough your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going. |
| 1:39.0 | You won't need to bring your frown. |
| 1:42.0 | Hi, I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration. |
| 1:48.0 | I founded my first business not on the High Street at 28 with a newborn strap to my chest. Nearly 20 years |
| 1:56.1 | on he's all grown up and I'm running my second business Holly Inco. I've learned |
| 2:02.0 | so much about taking risks, running a business and some extraordinary life lessons along the way, and I know others have too. |
| 2:11.0 | Yet despite the wealth of experience we have between us, lessons like this are often |
| 2:16.3 | left unheard and it can feel like we're traveling our paths alone. So I've reached out to founders and those who simply inspire me to share their hard-earned |
| 2:26.8 | wisdom with you. My hope is that collectively these remarkable realizations will help you on your own journey. |
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