S6: Building a business to live the Good Life with Sir Charlie Gladstone, founder of Pedlars and The Good Life Festival
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Charlie is hugely passionate about design, provenance, supporting makers, running businesses - but mainly helping everyone to ‘Live the Good Life’, and to do what they love. This is an utterly inspiring episode as Charlie leads us through (his self-described…) “feral” childhood but also what he believes to be game changers for small businesses and his hopes for the future of retail.
In this conversation Holly and Charlie and discuss why you must shop with purpose and a consciousness, how to ultimately harness an overflowing enthusiasm (as a person and as a business owner!) and most of all how love and passion can propel you through this journey.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration |
| 0:06.4 | founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative |
| 0:12.1 | 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 | Bough your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going. |
| 0:59.0 | This week's episode was recorded in front of an audience live in Glorious Edinburgh with Charlie Gladstone, |
| 1:05.8 | founder of Pedlers and The Good Life Experience. |
| 1:09.4 | I must admit I've been excited for this interview ever since he joined us at the Congregation of Inspiration and he didn't disappoint |
| 1:18.5 | The evening was pure magic with Charlie leading us through his self-described feral childhood, but an |
| 1:26.2 | upbringing that couldn't have been more unique, where his great-great-grandfather |
| 1:32.0 | was the most famous man in the world at one point. |
| 1:36.2 | In this inspiring conversation Charlie and I discuss what he believes to be the game changes |
| 1:42.0 | for small businesses. the future of retail and why you |
| 1:45.8 | must shop with purpose and how he and us all could ultimately harness our enthusiasm, drive and hard work into creating a little |
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