TRINNY WOODALL: I Wish I Knew THIS in My Twenties | GREAT MOMENTS
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What is the opening premise of the Great Moments episode with Trinny Woodall?
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Hey everyone, I hope you're well and welcome back to Great Moments. Now if you're new here, this is the place where I'm gonna bring you a standout moment from one of my favorite great comedy conversations. These are the moments that have stayed with me long after the recording, and I hope you can take something away from them. Now if today's conversation leaves you wanting more, you can find the link to the full episode in the show notes. So sit back, settle in, and here it is. There's drains and then there's uppers. What is the uppers? There's a drain and then open up quickly, there she is on the line. There's a drain and then there's something But you're the opposite of drain. You you you definitely bring people up.
Have you have you felt those low moments? Or do you not allow yourself to get there? Definitely, yes.
Lots of times. Radiators. Drains or radiator. That's it. So I had that moment. Susanna and I had worked together for ten years. Mm-hmm. And where do you guys meet? Susanna was working for the Telegraph, doing writing about women's cricket. She just had an affair with Imran Khan for a few years. And um Or is she still with David Linney?
How does Trinny describe her first experience on the trading floor and feeling like a fraud?
I don't know. She was doing one thing. Something happened. Yeah, something happened. Something happened. So She was saying that and and and she wanted to do something else. So then there was me and I was I was trying to do business and I hated business. My dad was a business person and I was just trying to do it, but I had no qualifications, nothing. I always felt a fraud. I felt so fraudulent and it wasn't working. But I what, because you didn't understand it or you felt out of place? I was so out of place. It was me and many men on a trading floor. I was trying to fit in, so I kind of sworn. Like a trooper, and you know, we were doing puts and stops and butterflies and options and commodity trading, the arse end of of
Of things really. It is the opposite. Commodity trading can be the opposite.
Just quickly, out of out of um out of how many people were you ha were you the only woman?
There was a secretary in the front room and then there was me and the sales team and then there were about uh sixty men. Yeah. How do you hold your own in
that scenario?
You develop this sort of skill of just Becoming one of the boys. I uh in that environment, the only way I thought I could succeed was to become one of the boys. So they were all loutish. Imagine the most loutish of your friends, and that was this collection of people. I'm in my twenties, and I think I've got to dress like a boy. So I get my raid my father's wardrobe. I come into work in the winter in his cover coat. I get um my suits from Miss Selfridge, but I go and take all the buttons off and I go to the button queen of Marilyn Lady. Yeah. I then buy, you know, with my salary I buy Ferragamo men's shoes. No, Fratelli Rossetti, men's uh lovely men's rogues.
Yeah.
And Because you became because but the only way I felt because I had never felt sexy feminine booby girl. All right. So I couldn't lean into let's be ultra feminine in this male world. That wasn't me. And I always felt more comfortable to be slightly masculine. So I leant into that and I even had quite a low voice. A lot of the people who were my clients thought I was a man. On the phone. Yeah. I had this client Who's on purpose do you did that? Uh I I I've always had quite a low voice. But I w I had one client who was this Nigerian and you did everything by phone and you were trying to sell them a fund.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the Great Moments episode with Trinny Woodall?
0:00–1:52
2
How does Trinny describe her first experience on the trading floor and feeling like a fraud?
1:52–7:23
3
Why did Trinny feel she had to “become one of the boys” on the trading floor?
7:23–9:43
4
What was the moment when Trinny pretended to be a man to close a big deal?
9:43–13:22
5
What is the single piece of advice Trinny wishes she could give her 20‑year‑old self?
13:22–14:43
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