![]() ![]() But Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour is so breathlessly tense that at times you may forget how well the Dunkirk evacuation went. However many school history lessons you may have skipped, you probably know that, on balance, Churchill did better than Hitler in World War Two. Actually, maybe it’s not much of a spoiler. I’ve carried it every day since… and I think if we can all do just one simple act of kindness we’ll all get through this and we’ll all be so much better.Spoiler alert! In June 1940, a flotilla of civilian boats rescued thousands of British troops from a beach in northern France, and Winston Churchill, one of the men responsible for the rescue, went on to lead Britain to victory against Germany. A simple act of kindness, that’s what that spoon was. The idea of sharing food, but my advice to you is that on a bad day, share your troubles because if you’ve got a problem, somebody else has. And she talked about the power of sharing. ![]() “She sent it to me on a particularly bad day. The founder of Oz Harvest, Ronni Kahn, gave her a spoon as a present. Holgate said she was struck by the empathy of others when she told her story. You can’t change that, but don’t let them define you.” She said it was important to frame adversity correctly. I had an ambition to have a roof over my head. “I don’t think at that moment, sitting on the floor of Euston Station, I had any ambition to be a CEO. Holgate told the story of how as a teenager she’d had an argument with her father and found herself homeless in London at a train station. “But one day I just woke up and – excuse me for swearing – I just thought ‘fuck you bastards!’ You feel incredibly alone, but once you get to that stage you can lift your head up and you can take it and use it for positive change.” I was silenced.” Group CEO Team Global Express Christine Holgate is interviewed by Forbes Australia Editor-in-Chief Sarah O’Carroll. “When something happens to you and somebody in one minute can destroy your whole life and whole career, you go through a whole set of experiences… It was the Saturday morning that followed that I was depicted as a prostitute in the Saturday morning paper. That 3 out of 5 women in the workplace suffer bully harassment in their life. She said that resilience was a feature that employers often overlooked when hiring. “I was still quite ill when I went to parliament but I had to find that strength to speak and … I knew it was the only way we could get things to change.” How would I ever have deserved the right to lead people again and to ask those people to respect each other if I was prepared to be abused and silenced. “But if I didn’t do it, I would never have been able to live with myself, because if you don’t speak out you tolerate it. She said she was told she would become unemployable if she admitted to having had suicidal thoughts. ‘They weren’t gods’: How Wendy McCarthy broke the boardroom glass ceiling ![]() And it’s his house, not yours, and a lot of people are telling you not to do it.” “Because, to go to parliament, the very place you were abused, and to speak up against the very man who abused you (prime minister Scott Morrison). Holgate agreed that it had been one of the hardest things she’d done. I had the vibe of people like Wendy McCarthy. “But wearing her jacket that day, I felt I had her armour, her soul, her protection. Zampatti died a week before Holgate gave evidence. The whole country will be looking at you.’ It was Carla’s jacket.” ![]() “And she said, ‘Darling you have to look fabulous. “Forgive me if I get her accent wrong, but she went, ‘Darling, what are you going to wear?’ I went ‘Carla, Wear? I’m lying on the bathroom floor vomiting most days.’ “I used to meet her on a Thursday afternoon,” Holgate told the Forbes Australia Women’s Summit on Wednesday. Holgate had been suffering suicidal thoughts and was due to front a parliamentary inquiry into her sacking as Australia Post CEO for giving Cartier watches to four of her executives, when she met with Zampatti. Group CEO Team Global Express Christine Holgate speaks during the Power of Resilience talk at the Forbes Australia Women’s Summit at ICC Sydney. Team Global Express CEO Christine Holgate has revealed how the words of renowned fashion designer Carla Zampatti helped her through her darkest hours. ![]()
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