Dom Harvey

Yeah.

I found a quote from you talking about John Savage, and it's wonderful words.

I think his support of me in the 22 years we'd been together was without precedent in terms of the support I'd ever seen any other woman receive.

It's a beautiful quote.

Yeah, I want to get to that because I've got that here, 2005 to 2009 being what you describe as the most difficult period of your life.

But I've just got a couple more telecom things first.

Sure, sure.

You were there for a long time, eh?

Eight years?

Eight years as CEO of a huge company like that, it's a big time, right?

I heard you on another podcast.

It may have been the Bruce Cotterill one, Leaders Getting Coffee, or the Simon Bridges one, generally famous.

And I'll completely botch up your quote, but hopefully you know what I'm talking about.

The quote you gave was something like, everyone in their life at some random point will experience a stroke of good luck or good fortune without reason, and something terrible that's going to happen to you.

What am I trying to say?

Yeah, when I heard you say that, it was like an aha moment for me.

It made perfect sense.

What would those two things be for you?

Is there anything that springs to mind?

Do you think it's your body's way of telling you to back off for a minute?