Poppy Jamie: Co-Founder of Happy Not Perfect & Co-Founder of Pop & Suki

This week, we chat with Poppy Jamie. Poppy Jamie is one of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, podcast hosts and speakers in the mental wellbeing and mindfulness space, on a mission to democratize conversation and tools for emotional and mental health. Poppy is the founder of the award-winning Happy Not Perfect mindset app, host of the chart topping Not Perfect podcast and author of Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts and Free Yourself From Anxiety.

Poppy kicked off her career while studying at the London School of Economics when she became the youngest television host at ITN. After graduating, Poppy moved to Los Angeles to work with MTV, ITV and later launched Pillow Talk with Poppy, Snapchat’s first chat show. Then in 2015, Happy Not Perfect was born out of a clear need for a tool to deal with anxiety. Poppy received hundreds of messages from viewers opening up about their stress and anxiety. With her mom being a neurotherapist, Poppy decided something needed to be created to help everyone manage their mental wellbeing better. Whilst developing Happy Not Perfect, Poppy co-founded accessories brand Pop & Suki with actress Suki Waterhouse. The brand celebrates the meaning of friendship. The following year in 2016, Poppy delivered a TEDx talk 'Addicted to likes’, which focused on the harmful effect social media has on our mental health. In 2017, Forbes named Poppy one of their 30 under 30s and she was appointed as the youngest board member of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Advisory Board at UCLA to help consult on the well-being of students.

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Poppy: @poppyjamie (and on Fireside here)

Happy Not Perfect: @happynotperfect (and buy the book here)

Not Perfect Podcast: on Apple Podcasts here and Spotify here

Dear Twentysomething: @deartwentysomething (and on Fireside here)