POPPY JAMIE: Rejection, Inner Critics and The Snakes and Ladders of Life

Today I am joined by Entrepreneur, Author, Podcaster and founder of the award winning mindfulness app Happy Not Perfect - Poppy Jamie. In 2012 Poppy graduated from the London School of Economics and subsequently travelled to LA to work with MTV as ITNS youngest ever British Presenter launching Pillow Talk with Poppy,. It was on a night out in LA that she met friend and future business partner Suki Waterhouse. Hitting it off straight away they launched the fashion accessories brand Pop & Suki. The following year was a whirlwind; the business popped off (pun un-intended) and Poppy found herself living a life fuelled with events, shoots and success as the brand went from strength to strength. To an outsider, Poppy was living the dream - surrounded by celebrity friends, a thriving business with considerable financial backing, working with her best friend every day, and a social calendar to die for. But inside, Poppy was fighting a battle that not even she fully understood. Riddled with anxiety, stress and exhaustion Poppy’s mental and physical health began to deteriorate until one day it snapped. In 2016 Poppy suffered an emotional breakdown. She was hospitalised and diagnosed with chronic exhaustion. Unrecognisable to herself, Poppy was frustrated with why she wasn’t happy when on the surface she had everything she ever wanted. Realising something needed to change she spent the following years trying to better her mental health and find more active ways of combatting these emotions. In the latter years of her twenties Poppy launched the Happy Not Perfect mindfulness app and also published her first book and started the podcast with the same title, impacting many lives along the way. Poppy’s twenties journey is evidence that sometimes our darkest times happen, so as to provide more light for our future.  We talk all things travel, silencing our 'bitchy inner critic', time, self-acceptance, happiness, perfection, being dumped by 12 year old boys and discovering who we are on the snakes and ladders board game otherwise known as life. Our favourite Millennial Minesweeper quote this week was; I think everything in the world is about just having fucking confidence in who you are at any given moment - Three women by Lisa Taddeo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.