From cutting meat at a delicatessen to selling socks to trading commodities to hosting a hit style show in the U.K. to beauty entrepreneur in her 60s, Trinny Woodall has seemingly seen — and done — it all.

“My first career was age 15, cutting meat in a delicatessen. Then I did a business called Sock It to You, selling socks on trade floors. Then I actually traded commodities. Absolutely hated it. Ninety-five percent men. And then I went to rehab at 26, came out, thought what on earth do I want to do because I want to do something I love and wake up and have a passion for. I had always made over my girlfriends, so that actually became my career in different forms,” she said at the WWD x FN x Beauty Inc Women in Power conference in a conversation with Beauty Inc editor in chief Jenny B.

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