Beautiful Misfits
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Beautiful Misfits
Beautiful Misfits don’t accept the status quo. They know instinctively the way we’re living today is broken. But they believe the world can be a better place. And they fearlessly take the imaginative leap to change it. Join Mary as she talks to the authors and businesspeople, designers and poets, wh...
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"Service. It's a sign of humanity...." with Thomasina Miers
We all need to do our bit to create a better future than the **** show we’ve got right now. Let’s make a commitment to be that bit more conscious, thi...
"I had a strong vision..." with Tom Herbert
As a fifth-generation baker from the esteemed Hobbs House Bakery family, Tom Herbert grew up with yeast in his in his genes and a ready-made career to...
"Are you kidding? You wouldn't say that to a man" with Trinny Woodall
Success isn’t always a straight line. Trinny Woodall burst onto our TV screens on What Not To Wear alongside Susannah Constantine in the noughties. Tw...
"Our country is broken because our politics is broken" with Gina Miller
Imagine your daughter being so scared for your safety that she fainted when you took too long popping out for a pint of milk? This is what happened to...
"I'm not sure I want to be called an activist" with Florence Given
I’m in my 60s. Florence Given is in her 20s. But we came together to chat everything from body image to the new kind of protest movements unfolding on...
"The answer is, there is no answer" with Dr Sharon Blackie
Fear is a big one isn’t it? The fear of failure. The fear of stepping out of our lane and getting flattened. But in today’s episode of Beautiful Misfi...
"When trauma happens, we take a lesson from it" with Tarun Gidoomal
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 relat...
"We need to expand what beautiful is" with Ione Gamble
This week's Beautiful Misfits guest is Ione Gamble. I absolutely loved talking to this intelligent, questioning, energetic and – crucially – hopeful y...
“Then something marvellous happened” with Jasper Conran
From fashion to interiors and retail, Jasper Conran has tapped into his creativity across a range of disciplines to build a glittering career. But his...
“The wind of change is moving” with Jude Kelly
Imagine a world in which we had true gender equality, a world in which women and girls could unleash all their power and come together with boys and m...
"I had the key all along" with Candice Brathwaite
Candice Brathwaite shares my belief in consciousness, soul, spirituality – the innate power that exists inside us all. She's used it to overcome perso...
“We’re far too obsessed with failure” with Julian Metcalfe (Pret A Manger / Itsu founder)
How do you feel about failure? For many of us, it’s one of the scariest places we can go. But the legendary founder of Pret A Manger and Itsu embraces...
“I’m digging and I need an answer” with Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay is a poet, a thinker, a rebel. His mother thought she was putting him into temporary foster care as a baby. But he was swallowed up by the...
“I felt I could handle it…” with Jane Shepherdson
My guest this week has been called “the most influential woman in fashion”. We both met starting out at Topshop in our 20s, before Jane Shepherdson we...
Introducing Beautiful Misfits - the new series from Mary Portas
Beautiful Misfits don’t accept the status quo. They know instinctively the way we’re living today is broken. But they believe the world can be a bette...
TKE: Why purpose is the key to resilience, with Emma Jones (Enterprise Nation)
Emma Jones CBE knows the journey of entrepreneurship first hand – she founded, scaled and successfully sold a home-grown tech company, all before she...
TKE: Empowering small businesses with Kelly Devine (President, UK & Ireland at Mastercard)
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...
TKE: Repairing clothes and communities, with Patrick Grant, Community Clothing
Patrick Grant knows that fashion has the potential to be about far more than the clothes we wear: from supporting disadvantaged communities to the ult...
TKE: Rewriting the rules, with Dale Vince, Ecotricity founder
Dale Vince isn’t your average entrepreneur.
After leaving school at 15, he spent ten years living off grid in buses, trucks and underneath tarp...
TKE: Using business to save the planet, with Beth Thoren, Patagonia
When Yvon Chouinard became a member of the Southern California Falconry Club in 1953, he was taught how to abseil down cliffs to view the birds’ nests...
TKE: Creating a truly inclusive beauty brand, with Simi Lindgren, founder of Yuty
FOR a long time, the world of beauty was stuck in the old ways of perfume counter selling, excess packaging – and those giveaway foundation samples in...
TKE: Developing healthy food relationships with Mark Cuddigan, CEO of Ella's Kitchen
Ella’s Kitchen is a lot more than a baby and toddler food company.
Its core mission is to improve children’s lives by developing healthy relatio...
TKE: How sports can help save the planet, with Michael Doughty, Hylo
More than three billion people watched the last World Cup final. The reach–and potential impact–of sport is almost limitless. But while social issues...
TKE: Meat isn’t the problem it’s industrial farming methods, with Glen Burrows, The Ethical Butcher
Food is under increasing scrutiny and meat is high on the agenda.
Everyone - from the authors of the UK’s national food strategy to the United N...
TKE: How to make our homes kinder, with Frieda Gormley, House of Hackney co-founder
Frieda Gormley and her husband Javvy M Royle dreamed up the idea for their interior brand at the kitchen table. Ten years on, House of Hackney is one...
TKE: Finding tomorrow’s Black entrepreneurs, with Eric Collins, Impact X CEO
In the UK last year, if you were a woman, just 2.9 per cent of
venture capital went to you.
If you were a black business founder you saw j...
TKE: Creativity and risk in brand building, with John Schoolcraft, Oatly
John Schoolcraft’s LinkedIn profile lists everything from dishwashing to shop assistant, DJ to Alice Cooper’s security guard among his previous jobs.<...
TKE: Supermarkets and sustainability with Richard Walker, Iceland MD
Richard Walker has taken his father’s business in a new direction since taking the helm. A passionate believer in the good that all businesses can do,...
TKE: Greenwashing in the energy industry, with Juliet Davenport, founder Good Energy
We’re doing our bit, we’re buying green energy right? Not always. In fact, a third of the energy that’s marketed as renewable is in fact greenwashed b...
TKE: How kindness builds the bottom line, with Anna Blackburn, Beaverbrooks managing director
Anna Blackburn is the first non-family member to run the jeweller Beaverbrooks. She’s also its first female managing director. And she’s more than dou...
TKE: Fashioning a greener future, with Edzard van der Wyck, Sheep Inc co-founder
Sheep Inc is a new kind of fashion brand and its knitwear leaves behind zero emissions, zero harm and zero waste. The attention to detail needed to cr...
TKE: Building a community, with Simon Mottram, Rapha founder
People who buy from sportswear specialist Rapha don’t just buy product - they buy into a global brand that’s all about connection.
Whether it’s...
TKE: How food can build a better future with Rosie Brown, Cook co-founder
The frozen food brand Cook is a true family business. Co-founder Edward Perry was inspired by his parents’ frozen cake company to set up Cook and then...
TKE: Measuring progress with Michael Green & a Portas round table
Michael Green is CEO of the Social Progress Imperative - an organisation that’s helping national and local government accurately measure what life is...
TKE: Building the future with Amanda Levete
Architecture is not just about what we build - but how we live. And Amanda Levete CBE believes our homes, shops, offices and public spaces can be radi...
TKE: Kate Raworth and Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth calls herself a rebel economist and it’s true. Now a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, she...
TKE: Your money can change the world - with Bevis Watts
You’re more likely to get divorced than you are to change your bank. But have you ever questioned how your money is being invested? Join Mary as she t...
TKE: Fashion gets a conscience with Fanny Moizant
After years of new, new, new, the resale fashion business is booming as more and more of us get savvy about fashion’s impact on people and planet. Ves...
TKE: World-altering herbs, with Sebastian Pole
Can something as simple as making a cup of tea change the world? Maybe not quite. But it certainly can help if the tea is made by a company like Pukka...