Mia Mottley
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Podcast Appearances
And I want to speak to it because people don't appreciate that I genuinely feel
that she is the business woman and artist that she is because of how she was raised.
Say more, what do you mean by that?
Barbados is a place that social justice matters.
If you go to Beijing, the first thing they tell you, man, you can't unfair that body.
That ain't fair.
Everything is about fairness, justice.
And Rihanna, when she decided to go into business, said, look, I'm going to do a makeup company because guess what?
Everybody's been doing makeup for certain colors and certain hues.
I'm going to do it for everybody because everybody matters.
Everybody must be seen.
I keep talking about seeing, hearing, and feeling people.
She did it.
Then she wasn't satisfied with that.
She said, I'm going to do a lingerie company.
And then you look at the shows and the lingerie is for every shape and size.
Those who are fit, those who have been maimed, those who are disfigured, for everybody.
And that sense of inclusion, that sense of social justice that was instilled in her from birth.
That was reinforced in her in school, is what she's living.
So when people ask, why is she successful?