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My Favourite Failure: Losing £500k on an event that should’ve been the start of my new career - Amanda Brock

My Favourite Failure: Losing £500k on an event that should’ve been the start of my new career - Amanda Brock

FromSecret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter


My Favourite Failure: Losing £500k on an event that should’ve been the start of my new career - Amanda Brock

FromSecret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter

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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Feb 1, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Amanda Brock, the CEO of Open UK, took a decade too long to jump from her legal career to what she really craved - the frenzy of entrepreneurship. She stayed in law too long because she’d experienced a sobering failure years ago - running an event which lost half a million pounds. What happened?
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Released:
Feb 1, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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