Ep60: Sliding Doors with Amanda Wakeley OBE

Amanda Wakeley is a Fashion Designer, Creative Director and Broadcaster and is one of Britain’s most celebrated and influential talents - being awarded an OBE in 2010. After a short stint as a fashion model in the 80s, she set up her signature line ‘Amanda Wakeley’ and for over 30 years she built her award-winning international brand - becoming a firm favourite with some of the world’s most stylish women including Catherine Princess of Wales, Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez. Now she is in the second stage of her career focusing on consulting, broadcasting and presenting, and last year she launched her podcast ‘Amanda Wakeley Style DNA.’In this episode Amanda takes us through her amazing life's journey and the Sliding Doors moments that made it. She chats about her decision to quit Art School and move to America at a young age - which is where she really honed her craft and built her own foundations for her brand. We discuss the incredible, career defining moment when Princess Diana decided to wear her design to resign from public life, and how this one decision catapulted Wakeley to become the iconic brand it is today. We also delve into how throwing yourself out of your comfort zone, can be the best sliding doors decision you can make!@slidingdoorspod Hosted by: @jenbecks28 Guest: @amandawakeley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Have you ever had a Sliding Doors Moment - a decision or opportunity that could have gone either way that leads to two very different futures?I’m Jennie Becker and I’m fascinated by ‘what if’ moments - what they look like, what we can learn from them - and how we can begin to embrace them.Four years ago I had my very own Sliding Doors Moment when I decided to start this podcast. Since then I’ve been on an incredible journey helping guests join the dots on the small decisions or moments that made a big difference and built the path of their lives.From Olympians to Presenters, Actors to Entrepreneurs (and even the cast of the 90s hit movie!), each episode I get to meet amazing people and ask them what could have been, if they’d chosen differently… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.