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Read an excerpt from If in Doubt, Wash Your Hair: Anya Hindmarch's handbook for budding entrepreneurs If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair" is her best piece of advice, and the title of her very first non-fiction. This guide to life consists of the best advice she's received over the years (for context, she's in her early 50s and started her business as a teenager!) as well as all the trials and tribulations she and her blended family have gone through. We love the part about your relationship with sugar. ’Sugar absolutely calls to me. It’s really noisy. I can hear it from another room’. Please pass on some tips on how to get over the sugar gremlin. Asking for a friend…If I am part of a 'transition generation' in which we women are trying to live up to our mothers' examples, despite now often working as hard as our fathers did; likewise men are often subconsciously following the patterns set by their fathers.' The idea for the book came from the questions Hindmarch received while delivering talks on her business journey. Audiences always wanted to know more about the bigger picture. In response, she has written a revealing manual covering everything from dealing with investors to navigating a family illness, all with razor-sharp discernment and a self-deprecating honesty. Launch of the ‘Return To Nature’ collection made from fully compostable leather that can actively improve soil health

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The ‘Universal Bag’ was launched with Waitrose and Sainsbury’s, and continues the fight to reduce plastic bag usage – nearly half a billion were sold between 2020-2021. Really enjoyed this sensible yet very warm and comforting read, it felt like a whirlwind stop of all the easy, great life advice you would ever need in one handy guide. With the exception of anger/aggression (which should be worked out in private) ...emotion is a female superpower and if women have an edge in business, it is in fact often because they do bring emotion to the workplace. A growing business is built on emotion.This is an autobiography/memoir (not sure) which also of course acts like a rather unusually helpful self-help book. Through a lighthearted, almost humorous prose, she highlights those practical solutions that helped her navigate a busy and eclectic life and emphasises on the importance of creative thinking and visualisation: making her work an inspiring handbook for budding entrepreneurs. There is mention of some wide-reaching advice which should appeal to the typical reader, but these came almost as an after thought at the end of most chapters, as opposed to her own story and experiences woven around the advice that is promised on the cover.

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I think it’s all about feeling like yourself. When I feel I’ve nailed an outfit is when I put it on and don’t think about it again. I forget it. I’m not having to hold in my tummy or pinch at something. When you get that right you smile with your eyes and look people in the eye, you’re just a bit more yourself and that’s what fashion is for – that’s the point – to forget what you’re wearing and feel good and confident. That’s my focus when it comes to dressing.” Being organised is critical to running a business and critical to running a family, and becomes essential when you manage both... it is vital to my mental well-being." I had in mind a really creative place that is ever changing and fun for everyone, especially with the Anya Cafe. It’s a place for breakfast, lunch, tea or early evening drinks. I hope it is somewhere that you can feel the creativity and humour of the brand through the most delicious food, somewhere that will become a really special takeaway cake shop or where you can find the most delicious gift for someone special.I make mistakes every single day. Running your own business is a patchwork of mistakes. That’s what it is. It’s about trying to navigate that. I think of it as a bit like sailing: you are going from A to B, but you go a bit right and a bit left and it’s a very wonky journey. If people think it’s easy, we’re not doing anyone any favours. It’s all about navigating through the mistakes.” Essential reading for the post pandemic entrepreneur . . . The ultimate guide to being both successful AND nice. Hail the roaringly kind 20s The title is based on her most frequently shared piece of advice. “On the one hand it’s flippant, trivial. It literally sums up how much better I feel about myself – how much more confident, how much glintier-eyed, how much better able to cope and respond – if I have freshly washed hair. But on the other hand, it is a reminder that I must look after myself, that I must put my own oxygen mask on first.”