S8: From Tragedy to Triumph, using business to create a lasting legacy with Rob and Paul Forkin, Founders of Gandys
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
But what do you do, when the very worst happens? How will the experience shape your life, and what will life look like on the other side?
Recounting their experience of the Tsunami where Rob and Paul, were orphaned at a young age, resilience, building a legacy and purpose sit at the very core of this conversation.
This episode follows Rob and Paul's journey to change the lives of children across the world through their foundation, as they share their views on retail, the high street and building a better world through business.
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| 0:00.0 | I feel both a privilege and a responsibility when capturing each founder's story. |
| 0:05.7 | I feel it even more acutely when speaking to founders such as Rob and Paul, |
| 0:10.1 | the duo behind Gandies. It's the most heart-wrenching but incredible story, a true |
| 0:16.7 | testament to the strength of human nature and the ability to triumph over adversity. |
| 0:22.3 | This was a highly emotional interview at times but I finished |
| 0:26.1 | the conversation feeling full of joy, hope and with an unwavering belief that when we set our |
| 0:32.3 | minds to do good in the world, wonderful things can be created. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to conversations of inspiration. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm the founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. |
| 0:46.0 | and I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses. |
| 0:50.0 | I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life and my dream is to help everybody start theirs. |
| 0:59.0 | So I've reached out to all my favourite small businesses, acclaimed entrepreneurs and those who just simply |
| 1:05.5 | inspire me and asked them to share theirs. |
| 1:09.1 | With thanks to our sponsor NatWest who have helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations of inspiration. |
| 1:17.0 | Bow your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going. You won't need to bring your frown you will find that |
| 1:26.2 | all the things. Hello Robin Paul so lovely to meet you both you've been on our |
| 1:30.9 | podcast list for a long time now and I remember watching your Gandhi's advert years ago |
| 1:36.4 | and being so utterly inspired. I knew I had to meet you both and it's a shame it's over tech but nonetheless I'm very very excited |
| 1:46.0 | first of all we're currently 12 weeks into lockdown here in the UK and I'm |
| 1:51.0 | recording this series remotely from my desk. |
| 1:54.0 | Paul, you're actually both recording from separate rooms, is that right? |
| 1:58.0 | Yes, he's upstairs and I'm downstairs and we're doing our social distance and even though we're brothers it feels it does |
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