V for Visionaries Podcast is born from a love of Entrepreneurs, a love of learning, and an understanding that shared business knowledge is important, especially when building a company.

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Sometimes I look around and I’m blown away by the sheer number of people with remarkable stories. People who’ve faced impossible odds, difficult childhoods, loss, disappointments yet they overcame and achieved incredible things..

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Try not to judge till you read everything I have to say, because everything I am about to say has defined my entire life & there is nothing I can do about that. 

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I  was born into extreme privilege & chaos, the 2nd daughter of a 4th-generation entrepreneur. I come from a long line of extreme achievers, including the World War I Military Commander, decorated Generals, Earls, the founder of Haig Whisky, and my grandfather's global business that eventually became part of AON PLC.

 

At 16 years old, I made the rare and defining decision to disinherit myself.

Where there is great repeated wealth, ambition, and vision, it can equally bring as many problems not easily solved. “I was grateful—but I knew I had to carve a different path”.

 

After swearing I'd never become an entrepreneur, I left school & home at 16, to end up unintentionally starting my first company.

 

We scaled internationally

 leading large-scale land and infrastructure projects, including the planning and delivery of entirely new towns, and winning awards. In an industry dominated by many wonderful men, I was among the 1% of women navigating high-stakes decisions, fine margins, decade-long timelines, and relentless pressure, where one misstep could collapse years of work. I am the unintended product of that wonderful School of Life.

 

You learn that class is how you treat others, and success demands far more than skill. It takes mental resilience, deep self-awareness, and the discipline to survive the impacts, ruthlessness & greed around you, industry politics, and personal sacrifice. 

 

 I'm a born optimist, carved from logic & having faced more than I cared to learn in business. You could put me in a shed and I'd adapt & still be happy, hopefully through listening to other entrepreneurs and visionaries their wisdom & experience gets captured. & passed on.

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