India Hicks

And then as many startups fail, we failed and we had to close the business.

And I felt that I had let them down.

And I felt personally responsible that these 5,000 women had come on this journey with me and believed in me because it was my name.

And that was very humbling.

And I think I regretted a lot of what we had done along the way now looking back with a business mind.

At the time, I was very naive and didn't really understand completely how to run a business clearly.

Even though I had two German CEOs, male CEOs standing beside me who really ran the finances and the actual business of it, I was there for the energy and the direction and the belief in the business.

But that was, I regret very much that I didn't succeed, mainly for them.

I certainly have been blessed with energy.

My poor husband, if he wakes up and he finds me with a Red Bull in my hand, he just thinks, oh God, here we go.

Nothing necessarily beats my life now and five children at home for Christmas on the island.

That, for me, is joy.

And what do you have for Christmas?

We have a very traditional English Christmas on a tropical island.

Sometimes we can even light the fire in our fireplace, and we feel really as though we're in England.

But it's always a time of great tradition and joy, and I always have my five children, despite the squabbling, despite all of the chaos that comes.

I'm doing a new entertaining book that comes out with Rizzoli in September, and it's called Entertaining with a Side of Chaos, and that is my life.

your life the one that comes into your head really you know predominantly and probably because it was most poignant was my grandfather's murder um certainly uh i think that that that definitely is there

I was going to mention the death of a ducksend banger who had three legs and was very remarkable, but I felt that it sounded a little too English to go for the death of the ducksend over the murder of my grandfather.

Well, I think probably parallel.