S4: Happiness is running a business doing what you love, LIVE with Thomasina Miers OBE, founder of Wahaca

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Personal Journals

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode was recorded in front of a live audience of 300 people in central London for the first ever Conversations of Inspiration Live event.

Thomasina Miers OBE is best known as co-founder of restaurant chain Wahaca and winner of Masterchef. Thomasina’s journey has not been easy, with a ten-year spell of depression, it was a chance meeting that set her on her path to happiness, founding a business doing exactly what she loves.

It was whilst traveling around Mexico, her love affair with food really took shape and she discovered a cuisine she’d never tasted back home in the UK and it was at that moment she decides to bring authentic Mexican cuisine to London.

So ensued a steep learning curve with a continued passion and vision to put sustainability and affordability at the very heart of her business.

Seven cookbooks later, a columnist and a 25 strong chain of restaurants, Thomasina shares her words of wisdom and incredibly honest account of her journey with our live audience.

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0:00.0	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration
0:06.3	founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. I'm the UK Ambassador of
0:11.4	of Creative Small Businesses.
0:13.7	I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy, fulfilled life,
0:20.3	and my dream is to help everyone start theirs.
0:24.0	I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement,
0:29.0	and in my view, the greatest way to do this is by sharing stories.
0:33.6	So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses,
0:37.0	acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me
0:41.8	and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to our sponsor Nat West
0:46.3	who have helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations of
0:51.6	inspiration.
0:53.0	Bow your head and let your islands close on down.
0:57.0	Welcome to my first conversations of inspiration live in partnership with Nat West.
1:04.3	I wanted to take this podcast on tour and share the magic of these inspiring conversations
1:09.9	with you all to hear firsthand these incredible entrepreneurial stories.
1:15.0	I believe one conversation has the power to change the course of your life forever
1:21.0	and I want it to be mine.
1:23.0	Recorded last Friday in London, the evening was so special and will be one of the highlights of my life so far.
1:31.0	My guest, Thomasina Myers, founder of Wahaca and winner of Master Chef, was utterly inspiring.
1:38.6	I was blown away by her honesty, drive, her passion for pushing the world forward using her business as a force for good.
1:48.4	Tickets are on sale now for our
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