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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Trinny Woodall: How She Went From Drug Addict To Building A $300m Business Empire!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Age is bulls**t! From ‘What Not To Wear’ to a skincare and make-up empire, Trinny proves energy is everything. In this new episode, Steven sits down with fashion guru and CEO, Trinny Woodall Trinny became a household in 2001 as co-host for the makeover TV series ‘What Not To Wear’, this continued for 5 seasons and earned a Royal Television Society Award. In 2017, Trinny launched her direct-to-consumer beauty brand, Trinny London, this has been recognised as one of the fastest-growing brands in Europe. In this conversation Trinny and Steven discuss topics, such as: Having to look out for herself as a child Taking drugs to hide a lack of confidence and self-worth Drug addiction and deciding to become sober Being kicked out of rehab Why changing perspectives is her drug Working in The City and faking being successful Walking away from a job she hated Breaking into television and household fame Separating her work and personal life Why she hates the term 'imposter syndrome' Starting a tech business Her first business failing after a year What she looks for when she hires people How energy trumps a CV Overcoming her ex-husbands suicide Why in business you should do only what you can do Her motivation to start Trinny London Selling everything she had to start Trinny London The power of the Trinny Tribe Why age doesn't matter You can purchase all of Trinny London’s products here: https://bit.ly/3LhIc0G Follow Trinny: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3PtZ1rY Twitter: https://bit.ly/3PwB6YX YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RcvF2o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:27.5

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0:30.6

I look at your skin and I'm going to come open up.

0:32.8

Oh, no. Oh.

0:34.1

Then I go around here.

0:35.4

That's not really good.

0:36.4

Training would all beauty queen of the screen,

0:39.0

founder and CEO of Trinny London.

0:40.8

One of the fastest growing companies in Europe.

0:43.0

Have a great day.

0:44.6

I went through phases in my early 20s of not knowing who I was and turning to drugs.

0:49.2

I went to rehab.

0:50.2

I heard that you'd been kicked out the first time for playing a porn video.

0:53.0

Yeah, it backfired.

0:54.6

Rehab was a huge beginning of the change in my life.

0:57.5

And I went into a whole new world.

0:59.8

Following a 20-year career in media.

1:01.7

Training took a left turn in the makeup industry.

1:03.7

Here we are, $250 million later.

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