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How I Got Here from Radio 1's Academy

03: How Tara Button Got Here

Duration: 27 minutes

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Joivan Wade and Percelle Ascott talk to Tara Button about how she got here.

In this episode, Joivan & Percelle talk to Tara Button who left a career in advertising to set up her own company Buy Me Once. After the company became a viral sensation, Tara was catapulted to entrepreneurial success, splashing across all the national newspapers and writing a book 'A Life Less Throwaway'.

Throughout the series Joivan and Percelle will be talking to people who have made their own success and taken their ideas from bedroom to boardroom. Guests include comedy writer/performer Kayode Ewumi, agent Dumi Oburota, entrepreneur Tara Button, model agency director Chams Hayden and comedian Mo Gilligan.

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