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Aug 2023
44m 23s

Dorinda Medley On How Reality TV Helped ...

Trinny Woodall
About this episode

Join Trinny and Dorinda Medley, TV personality and entrepreneur, as they discuss how financial fears can feed or stifle your ambitions.


Before shooting to fame on Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York, Dorinda had made a name for herself in the fashion world, first working at Liz Claiborne in New York and then launching her own cashmere brand in London.


Going right back to her working-class upbringing in The Berkshires through to her second marriage and beyond to her TV career, she and Trinny examine how fear has helped or hindered Dorinda along the way. They discuss how fears around money can hold you back from achieving what you truly want, and how the feeling of losing her identity after her husband’s death led Dorinda to the next chapter in her life. 


They also delve into how her faith has helped her in times of uncertainty, and how the strong women in her life have lifted her up in good times and bad.

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