TKE: Empowering small businesses with Kelly Devine (President, UK & Ireland at Mastercard)

Beautiful Misfits

Mary Portas

Society & Culture, Business

4.5 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Devine believes that micro and small businesses are the lifeblood of the UK economy. As part of the team behind Strive UK – an initiative set up by Mastercard as a free resource for small business owners across the country – Kelly is working to help these businesses to navigate the digital economy, build relationships and communities, and ultimately realise their growth ambitions. Alongside Mary, she discusses the huge potential of the sector, and why these entrepreneurs are the changemakers of the future. For more on how Strive UK could help your business, visit www.mastercard.co.uk/strive Follow Mary Portas on: Instagram: @maryportasofficial Facebook: Mary Portas And to get in touch with team Portas, email us at: [email protected] and you can subscribe to the Portas POV Newsletter for musings, provocation insights and inspiration.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Mary Portas and this is The Kindness Economy, a podcast that looks at the new values driving the businesses of tomorrow.
0:08.7	People, planet and profit in that order.
0:12.7	It's the future. Are you ready for better?
0:17.3	I've lain awake many, many times during those long grey hours near dawn.
0:22.6	They can feel so overwhelming, can't they?
0:25.6	But I've learnt not to rail against those moments,
0:28.6	to distract myself until I finally fall asleep again,
0:31.6	because while it might feel overwhelming
0:34.6	when the world around you is still and silent. Every morning, without fail,
0:40.6	the sun rises and another day starts. I'm sure I'm not alone. Lots of us are having
0:47.2	sleepless nights given the state the world is in right now. So what do we need to help us get
0:52.8	better through the nights and, of course, the days?
0:56.2	If you'd ask the Beatles, they'd have said, yeah, love is all you need.
0:59.7	But I say there's another equally important four-letter word in the English language, hope.
1:08.3	If love is the glue that knits us together, hope is what propels us forward, however
1:14.6	brutally we are tested. Without hope, what impetus do we have to keep moving at all? Now, I'm not
1:22.0	talking about those cartoon versions of positivity that we see on graphics through social media feeds.
1:30.0	No, this is a very human emotion of believing, even in the face of facts that might seem to contradict you,
1:36.5	that evolution and change is possible. Hope isn't about what's just in front of us, it's about
1:44.0	what might be.
1:45.6	The life we could possibly will into existence.
1:50.9	That's it in a nutshell.
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