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Disruptors

Suzanne Shaw: Brutal Honest on Hear'Say, Fame & Money

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Join Rob as he talks all about Hear’Say, Fame and Money with Suzanne Shaw. She delves deep into how Hear’Say was both the best and worst thing to happen to her, what have been the highlights of her career since, the many sides of social media and her personal journey to living a happier and more fulfilling life.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Hear’Say was the best and worst thing for Suzanne's career. She recognises the privilege she had and the opportunities it gave her but at the same time there were a lot of downsides. Reality tv bands were brand new and no one knew how to look after them, build a brand and maintain it. Hear’Say lasted just 20 months, band member Kim Marsh left six months early. Suzanne said Kim chose to leave because of lack of communication. She felt unheard and so she left. Communication and conflict overtook the band. It was an emotional rollercoaster and all Suzanne wanted to do was sing and dance. Suzanne was just 18 when she joined the band. She left college early and lived in a mansion and everything was paid for by the record company and ITV. She wasn’t paid much, just £500 a week, but because of her age she didn’t realise how poor this actually was. Invasion of privacy by the press was part in parcel with being famous at the time. Suzanne was phone hacked and even had to deal with private investigators. So many things happened then that would not be acceptable or even legal now. Sometimes we are giving people a platform who probably shouldn’t have one. We are amplifying people who shouldn’t be role models. If you build your own self-respect then that is the energy you will receive back, not just from your own inner voice but from those around you too. After Hear’Say, Suzanne had a successful career on stage and after appearing on dancing on ice she managed to land her dream role in Chicago. However, she started to realise that she was suffering from low self-esteem and poor mental health but had to hit rock bottom to start to heal herself. Being prepared and organised is the only way Suzanne believes you can master being a mum with a career. You also have to be honest about how life is harder being an ambitious female with childcare responsibilities and try and let go of any guilt.    BEST MOMENTS “The day the band split up was on my 21st birthday”   “It was public humiliation[The Press]…the mistakes I was making as a kid still”   “We are paying people who have screwed other people over because we are making tv shows about them”   “If you don’t have your own self respect, you’re not going to get the respect from anyone else”   “I was dying on the insides, I hadn’t dealt with the crap from Hear’Say”   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team  ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:39.0

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0:47.0

And a massive thank you to Masterworks for sponsoring this episode.

0:52.0

That's where it started. I had to be better for them. I had to be better for myself first and foremost to pick myself up.

0:59.0

And the reinvention came from just being better for myself and my family.

1:04.0

Susie was being in the first reality TV pop group here say the best or worst thing for your career.

1:12.0

Do I have to choose one?

1:14.0

Yeah, the best all the worst.

1:16.0

It was both. If I had to choose one, I'm going to be controversial.

1:21.0

I'm going to say worst.

1:23.0

Okay. Why was it the worst thing for your career?

1:26.0

Because I'm thinking about it because I was going to say it was the best and worst thing because there were amazing opportunities there were.

1:34.0

And I don't want to sound and grateful because it was a very privileged situation to be in.

1:39.0

But in terms of timing, being the first of the reality shows, nobody in the industry knowing exactly how it worked,

1:48.0

how to create this brand, maintain the brand and how to help us.

1:55.0

It was the worst time possible to be auditioning for a reality show that had nobody knew what would happen to us.

2:05.0

So therefore we didn't last that long.

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