"When trauma happens, we take a lesson from it" with Tarun Gidoomal

Beautiful Misfits

Mary Portas

Society & Culture, Business

4.5 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Beautiful Misfits, I'm joined by the general manager UK at Ankorstore. Tarun Gidoomal and I share a belief in the vitality of the relationships at the heart of retail - shops are about emotion, not just buying and selling. I learned about the value of local shops after my mother died. As a teenager, feeling completely lost without her, I’d get off the school bus each day wondering what I was going to cook my dad and brother that night. But it was the local butcher and grocer who helped me work it out, saved me bits, offered me kindness. They were a light in a very dark time. Tarun, like me, has experienced loss in his life and has come to understand that what tests us most can also help us grow. Join us on today’s episode of Beautiful Misfits as we chat loss, moving past the behaviours that protected us in pain but no longer serve us, and the power of shops to create beautiful business for beautiful living. 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	The world feels divisive right now.
0:05.0	Whether it's our religious beliefs, value systems or political affiliations,
0:10.0	it sometimes feels that the edges separating us are ever hardening,
0:14.0	as we're constantly pitted one against the other.
0:17.0	But we risk losing sight of the one thing uniting us all, our common humanity.
0:24.5	The external systems of religion, economics or politics is what separates us. Whatever creed or
0:31.4	colour we are, humans share so many core internal truths. The joy, bewilderment and fear of childhood, struggle to become
0:40.2	autonomous as an adult, first love, caring in so many different ways for children and grieving
0:46.1	loss. And it's important to remember just how much we actually have in common with people
0:51.5	who may on the surface at least seem very different.
0:55.5	Take my guest today, he's younger than me, he's of British Indian heritage, oh, and he's also
1:00.7	a man. And yet, our experiences as children share similar themes, as do our values as adults.
1:08.2	I need to tell you straight off that he's the head honcho at the business sponsoring this podcast, Anchor Store.
1:14.7	But while I have loads of great sponsors over the years, Turun Goodemore is different.
1:20.4	Yes, our business values chime because that's got to happen if I'm going to partner with someone.
1:25.5	Tarun like me is a change maker. He too believes in the
1:29.4	power of community, small business, local independent retail and how vital it is to the enrichment
1:36.1	of our collective life. So I knew we would share the same business values on paper, but in real life,
1:43.0	our partnership has translated into something more.
1:46.0	Tarun and I come from the same place emotionally, and we both take that into our work alongside
1:51.0	each other. And that's the thing. Business is far more than the physics of data and spreadsheets.
1:57.0	It's about the chemistry too. And when you come from a similar place, you share the same light.
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