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Speaker 1: Heather Duplessiella. Yes, so sad news today that Michael Hill

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Speaker 1: Jeweler has passed away again, another larger than life figure

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand business, the likes of which we don't

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Speaker 1: seem to be making anymore now. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you realize. I mean, we've all grown up with Michael

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Speaker 1: Hill just being you know name we knew, But I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you realize how amazing his story was.

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Speaker 1: He did not start his jewelry business until he was

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Speaker 1: forty years old. He'd up to then been working as

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Speaker 1: a manager in his family's jewelry business. He left school

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Speaker 1: at sixteen, headed straight there. He's there for twenty three years,

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Speaker 1: got married, had a couple of kids. One day his

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Speaker 1: house burnt down, and the story goes that when he

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Speaker 1: was watching his house go up, like literally standing there

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Speaker 1: watching his house go up in flames, he decided he

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Speaker 1: needed to change things. So he started his own shop

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Speaker 1: and it was a success. It was more successful than

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Speaker 1: his uncle's business. So he opened seven shops in seven

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Speaker 1: years and that was a success. So he then decided

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Speaker 1: to open another seventy in seven years. And now his

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Speaker 1: business is global. It's in New Zealand, it's in Australia,

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Speaker 1: it's in Canada. He's worked with Kim Kardashian, He's designed

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Speaker 1: his own golf course, he has a luxury super yacht,

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Speaker 1: He's got himself a knighthood, And isn't it remarkable when

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Speaker 1: you think about it that all of those things happened

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Speaker 1: after he took a massive risk when he turned forty.

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Speaker 1: I mean forty years, an age when most of us

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Speaker 1: are either at the peak of our careers or absolutely

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Speaker 1: firmly settled in what we're doing. Imagine just tipping it

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Speaker 1: all up and deciding to start your own business at forty.

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Speaker 1: What I love about Michael Hill's story the most was

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Speaker 1: that he did the same thing that many successful people do.

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Speaker 1: He set goals and he visualized them. So he wrote

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Speaker 1: his goals down for years, in advanced seven years, sometimes

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Speaker 1: even as many as thirty years, and then he imagined

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Speaker 1: what it would be like when he was actually doing

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Speaker 1: that and had achieved those goals. You will hear successful

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Speaker 1: people tell you to do this time and time again,

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Speaker 1: but before you even go get to the point of

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Speaker 1: setting that goal, you have to believe that you can

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Speaker 1: achieve it, and he clearly believed it in spades, and

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Speaker 1: he thinks not enough of us believe what we can achieve.

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Speaker 1: He was more, obviously though, than just a man who

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Speaker 1: was into money. He promoted art. He was very good

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Speaker 1: at violent, in fact, so good he founded an international

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Speaker 1: violin competition for young players. He donated to health research.

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Speaker 1: He took his New Zealand business to the world, and

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Speaker 1: he showed yet again that you can dream big from

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Speaker 1: a small place like fung at Ah. He is an

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Speaker 1: inspiration and he is a loss, But more importantly, he

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Speaker 1: is an example to us all we just need to

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Speaker 1: set our goals and then go for it. For more

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