Show Notes
Andrea McLean joins Takaya Honda for a raw, generous and deeply honest conversation about leaving Loose Women, losing professional identity, financial collapse, shame, resilience and building a life after public failure.
What we get into: Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago and returning to the UK GMTV, live TV and becoming the long-serving anchor of Loose Women The art of holding a panel together and making the viewer at home feel seen Walking away from a stable TV contract Building This Girl Is On Fire and launching into a pandemic Business failure, illness and selling her home Shame, public identity and the Starbucks story Rebuilding through media training, writing and moving to Spain Redefining success, money, contentment and what comes next
just tak. is an interview platform dedicated to unmasking the reality of the creative industry. Hosted by Australian actor and presenter Takaya Honda, the show strips away the polished PR narratives to ask the most important question in performance: Why?
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