From her Stockport roots in a hard-working, working-class family to the boardrooms of some of the UK’s biggest brands, Nicola Collister’s story is one of relentless curiosity and reinvention. In this episode, Nicola reflects on the choices that defined her path-from turning down a grammar school place as a teenager, to walking away from university in pursuit of independence, to breaking barriers at the RAC as one of its first female managers. She shares what it was like to lead through transformation at the height of the dot-com boom and why curiosity – not comfort – drove her decision to step out of corporate life and start her own consultancy. Nicola also opens up about the leap into investing, what she looks for in founders, and why passion and energy matter just as much as product. Along the way, she reveals the hardest lessons of scaling, the challenges of letting go, and the values that continue to guide her through every reinvention.

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