Paris Fury | Extraordinary Life Stories

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1:17Yeah, I do. I do. And I've realised it must be a bit of a sick addiction to like to be this busy and this hectic. You look good for it. Before we get into it, who is Paris Fury? Paris Fury is a mother of seven a housewife and also someone who's venturing out into business and trying to show their children more than what life can be but what you can do in life everything you can achieve and that everything you want you can get love that as a dad to two teenage daughters yeah championing female entrepreneurship this is a conversation I can't wait for this is it it's it's showing not only I've got four sons I've got three daughters and we come from a very traditional family very traditional um upbringing and I just want to show my kids that you can still do that you can be the wife you can be the mother you can run your home you can also run the business you can be everything you want to be so where's that inspiration come from specifically from your point because that makes you a role model not just to your children but to my kids, to all women and girls out there that might doubt themselves, might not have a self-belief.

2:28I had a very strong, strong mother who had a lot of hardships in life. I have a special needs sister. We was brought up just very average family, you know, dad away all the time, always working, mum at home trying to run everything, trying to keep the house, trying to keep the kids, trying to run through the school, run, look after a child that needed extra care. and she always looked great doing it as well my mom everyone said oh your mom always looked done always look groomed because my mom believed in get up in the morning no matter what it was she said if you've got a cold sore you cover it you carry on if you've got a cold to take your medicine you carry on and she always put that determination in me and she was always the type to say you can do anything and also nobody is better than you but nobody's below you she always said that and that was one of her sayings that stuck with me all through my life.

3:21So I don't believe when I walk in a room, there could be the richest person in the world, there could be this cleverest scientist. I don't believe they're better than me, but I also don't believe they're any worse than me. I think we're all on a level playing field and you can go out there and get anything. It's brilliant. There's like a humility there, but with determination and confidence, which is an interesting balance because it's not arrogance. There's nothing arrogant about that at all for me. It's, I believe in myself, that belief was instilled in you by your mother. From a childhood. And now you are passing that on to not just your own children, but countless others.

3:52Yeah, just because I'm lucky and blessed to have that platform from my husband being who he is, the world champion boxer. And obviously I was his wife. I've supported him through his career. And through the situations of our life, the world has seen me. And for some crazy reason, they really like me. And it's just continued from there. But I don't want to pass on this sort of false, crazy lifestyle. I just want to be me, I want to be real and I want to tell everybody the truth of it. When I do my Netflix documentary, I only ever do truth. I don't do stage, I don't do false. I do me, real life, the good, the bad, the ugly.

4:30And that's what I want people to see. You used the word real, I was going to bring that up. I've been in your presence for kind of half an hour. Netflix are outside waiting to follow you for the rest of your day. It's a crazy busy schedule and I can just tell you're just you. I am, that's it. I'm an open book in all my ways because I don't feel I've got anything to hide. I've got nothing to prove. I've got nothing to hide. And I'm happy just to be me and embrace what I'm doing on a day-to-day life. And especially in these situations, I like to be real. I like to be me. And I like people to take me for me.

5:02I don't want to put on a false arrogance or a false air or pretend I know everything or pretend that I'm super clever or any of the above. I just am me. And it works. Yeah, I can tell. I was going to actually mention, you mentioned Tyson, your husband, and almost the kind of success you've had to be able to not need to have a business, it's a desire to want to, and I think that sets you up for success before you've even started. I want to go into the reasons why you've gone into the business, which is eternal ecology. Want to know the why behind you got into it? The why behind it is, as you've just said, I am in, and I'm under no delusion, a privileged situation to say that I can stay at home I've always said with my management team I don't want to do anything that takes me from my home I don't want to do things that takes me away from my kids and my family life because that is my first priority but I enjoy and I like to be involved in other things and I think it's great for my kids especially my girls to see me being more than just mom so I work with brands that I enjoy that I can fit in my lifestyle but then I also that I believe in because I wouldn't and I've declared this adamantly I wouldn't work with a brand that didn't work I couldn't promote something and say out there I came from a home that was an average home so to say you know go buy this product go buy this product and I know deep in my heart it's a load of rubbish I couldn't do that I couldn't do that to people who's saving and spending their hard-earned money to buy a product and another thing was with eternal collagen I wanted to be involved in the sort of the science behind it I wanted to be involved in what it's got what it hasn't got, I've made recommendations of what I needed as a mother and as a woman who is 35 and what I thought I would like in a product but I also said it has to be affordable, so don't go and make this great great product but then put a massive price tag on it that people can't afford Make it exclusive, yeah, so you wanted to be everybody which actually comes back to that relatability that you exude what it's something that you felt you needed and you've put your own identity into it because I was interested over how much involvement you had and you just elaborated on that so you have helped shape this you've helped create this product yeah because when they first came to me there's like there's a collagen brand they really want to work with you they're really interested in your image as a mother as busy as hectic and your lifestyle and I said okay so what is in it because obviously we as a woman at 35 I'm always on for the great you know the great cure so a few years ago I felt really drained I was low on iron I was taking b12 shots um I was getting like all my vitamins and I was like loading them up I was asking for care and I said you know they told me some of the products that was in it and some of the some of the ingredients and I was like but it needs more it needs it needs other things and there's also in there there's escanacea which is one that really boosts your immune system and I was like that's great we need that we need that to work because as a parent I also think that you need to look after yourself to look after everyone else so that is actually now the slogan of the campaign you know fill up your cup first but it is true it's proper leadership though using that as an example you can't love someone else if you don't love you know yourself internally you can't love anyone else because you haven't got that kind of self-belief and determination to go out there.

8:20So the product itself, back to eternal collagen, it sounds like anyone that might be taking two, three, five, ten pills in the morning and supplements actually can take this and you can actually just take this, which is brilliant. Yeah, the vitamins and the product that's there has got everything you need and probably most of, like you've just said, in the morning when you wake up and you take your vitamins and you're pushing it all in, it's all in this one product. So it's such a quick fix. It's one cup, one product, and you take it once a day. it's just so easy but I have been taking this now for about three months and I have found so many benefits not just like not just to blow blow the trumpet and lie I've never been able to grow my nails all my life I always it was one stigma because I always prided myself on looking well due to my mother always telling me you know look after yourself look well look good people aren't going to take you serious if you look a mess if you turn up scruffy it's no good so I always had that from being 14 I believed in it so I wanted to grow my nails my nails are growing for the first time in 35 years once you've got concrete proof that concrete proof my nails are growing my skin's glowing a couple of weeks ago about two or three weeks back now my full household come down with sickness it was all right in the middle of business as well I was doing a lot of work at the time it was the worst possible time for it all to happen and I was the only one in the house that didn't get it big Tyson got it every one of the kids got it over a two-week period everybody fell except for me again I'm giving credit to this immune system building and all the stuff all the all the nutrients you're getting wow yeah so from a USP point of view you know why is this not already in the market or is it a price point thing is that is there is there something that competes but is not for the masses if you like um I know that there is other collagen brands that's out but I think most of them um we have a sheet that's got the science down behind it it's got like they've got some vitamins but not most they've got a couple maybe four maybe three ours has got a whole load and it's also got um there is brands that's got like a few thousand milligrams but i think ours is one of the only brands that's got 15 ,000 milligrams of pure collagen and that's important yeah yeah and that there is um it's one of the reasons why it's just come out is because they've obviously condensed it put it all in this one bottle they put all the vitamins in it and there isn't one out there from my knowledge I'm sitting here right now and saying I don't believe there is a product with collagen all in one the same as eternal collagen well excited for you yeah you see in your eyes you know you're totally pumped by this how does Tyson feel about this you've already busy running the family yeah I'm helping him with his busy schedule today he is looking after the five little ones my teenage daughters there he's got the five little ones he's washed and dressed and he's already been on the phone and said he's putting them off to school Tyson's fully supportive of anything I've chosen he's actually the one to say go and do it go and get it and that is a great great relief as well it's a good support system but I think he knows that I've supported him for so many years from me being I got married at 18 where I had my first child at 19 and the whole time of that Tyson started his career two weeks after our marriage we came off the honeymoon early so he could have his first fight and we've grew with his career and I've supported him the whole way I've lived in different countries I've took my kids around the world they've been in and out of different schools all for his career and I think he appreciates now everything I did and at this moment my kids I think I think I'm finished with my family life I've got seven beautiful healthy kids so I think I'm done there done my part for the world and he is completely supportive of everything I want to do I want to go out and I want to do different business adventures that again doesn't take me too far from home because that's just what I love I can't help it I was born to be a mother and I know that but as a mother I think it's great to push out there something that can help other parents you know it's not exclusively for women it's for men as well because over 25 you start to deplete in your collagen output everybody does so this rebuilds that this pushes it back in and it keeps you healthy fit well it's got your vitamins in it it's a great product that I believe in that I think is worth pushing.

12:38You see that as a mission alignment with you as a personality, you that wants the benefits of what this can give you, but also actually gives you that purpose and fulfillment as Paris, because it's an interesting time for you, that kind of transition of your oldest daughter's just got engaged. She has. Congratulations. Thank you very much. And the whole mindset shift, I'm going to spin you out, but grandkids and stuff comes into the whole club. I know, it's terrible. But it's a transition. and I've heard you talk before about at some point Tyson's going to retire and that's going to be potentially challenging but actually just listening to you now there's almost a fulfilment of the fact that that's potentially happening he announces retirement early this year but we'll see if he actually is but that's happening it's happening now Tyson said he's retired he is at home and as it stands at the minute touch wood he is sticking to his guns and he's staying retired and as you say my daughter's um just got engaged we've had that discussion about grandkids hopefully a few years from now but oh my goodness i couldn't even be imagine being a granny it'd be a great moment in family life but it would be a bit scary so to be looking fresh would be quite good to be a glam yeah yeah you don't anywhere near old enough to be a grandma but you've got this lovely tribe around you and i think that that's no back to tyson where actually there's probably an element of fulfillment for him knowing that you know you're not going to be looking to find the next thing he can just concentrate on himself and family yeah that i use that word tribe that family unit you've got there's a pandemic of loneliness we've got people that are isolating themselves using social media there's never been more of a distraction to kind of take yourself away from community you've got the most amazing family network and beyond yeah and i just wonder whether that that sort of support and if you like use that word community something that you are so aware is so important in today's world because I grew up with that yeah but people are now not growing like that and a lot of people will often sort of say and I've been talking to people about the fact I'm going to be talking to you today and saying oh it's amazing how she does so much and how much the sort of family unit supports do you feel almost unique in that or do you yeah because it's actually sad to say it's not the norm I know I find that crazy but in in our in our home and in our sort of culture we all believe in helping each other you know it's i know if i needed someone tomorrow i've got friends i've got family to support me and i'm very very blessed to have that and i know a lot of people don't but it's like our kids we all sit together for tea still like we all get together this is what i want to ask you and keep them off their phones because that's the thing if you're in a small isolated near it's very easy to go on your phones and it sounds like that's almost managed by default because everyone gets in and You're there saying off the phones or don't even need to.

15:25Well, we don't have phones. We do. Me and Tyson have a phone. My oldest daughter, who's 16, has a phone. My son, who's 14, doesn't have a phone. None of the little ones have phones. They've got tablets that they sometimes use, but very rare because they're usually in a drawer somewhere, not charged. We try and keep off that kind of platform. you know obviously my youngest son he's got a an instagram account which again is to build his social to build his sort of people to know him and he's got one but it's not on a phone that he's personally got it's on my phone or his dad's phone and it's accessed by us and controlled really by us he gets to go on it but i don't have my children on social media i don't have them out there venezuela has from being i think 13 or 14 she started with it but on a controlled way and I don't think phones are healthy for young kids no and so I'm thinking I'm sort of learning from you here and almost feel hypocritical because we are two daughters 14 and 15 have phones yeah and I'm on my phone far too much because at any one time I could be booking a hotel I could be messaging someone I could be doing any number of things all guilty of it totally but where do you stand with when your kids turn around and say well you're always on your phone then instantly if I was on my phone I would put it down instantly I do that, yeah.

16:42So if I was on my phone, instantly I would think, yeah, back into reality, off that phone. And I try to limit my phone use as much as possible. Even, I see, you see all these posts and me and Tyson are both saying it now, like try not to put phones on when you're in bed. I think it really is, and I don't know why, but it detaches you from each other, it detaches you from the world. But they also have such great benefits for work and for, you know, even just general life, your shopping, you know, to go online, buy something. There is good sides of it, but I think everybody needs to know when to pack it away and that is just something that we're all a little bit guilty of but our initial unit is we we get up we talk to one another I've got a great mother Tyson's got his dad and his family his brothers I've got my brothers and sisters we are quite a family unit and if we've got someone to talk to we talk to family um but we're just lucky that way I suppose yeah but you've created it you've made a consensus I love the fact as well that when if one of your kids calls you out and says you're on your phone you put the phone down you listen that was someone being seen and heard at a young age and I think I'm gonna use that word of I haven't already used it role model you know I don't know if you're aware of this I sit quite sort of in the entrepreneur business sector less than 2 % of venture capital funding went into female entrepreneurs year on year there's a shift it's changing I think there's some really positive good news coming out end of this year let's show it's showing that more and it might surprise you to notice but because I started thinking is that an archaic chauvinistic broken system um and and you know is there other barriers to entry it's actually the lack of self-belief and confidence in girls that don't see role models don't see women doing what they think they can do but that's shifted it is shifting and you're a massive part of that well thank you very much for thinking that and if i am i'm very very i can tell you grateful for that but i believe that is shifting because because of social media so this is where I come back to there is good sides of it because women can be at any point influential whether you're a stay-at-home mom whether you're a nurse who's working 24 hours you know you can still put your input out there to the world and if it's interesting enough people will follow it so for me I didn't believe I was that interesting but it got out there and you know that's why people follow what I'm doing because they can relate I don't try to be something I'm not as I've said so people relate to me quite well and I think that's what's great about you know endorsing things that's that work for me as a female as a woman as a mother as a busy person as someone who's doing business doing work and I think that you need to put that positive side out so that's where social media does work but I think the shift the shift has obviously come in time females are strong female and I'm really sorry I believe females are stronger than males because I know my husband couldn't do my job I know he can I know he can manage for a day he can manage for a few days but that pressure that a busy working mother has that is immense pressure you know especially when you're not in a in a situation like myself where if I don't work I have the funds behind me to live on very comfortable there is some of us that have to get up on a daily to grind just to feed their kids you know and they are strong strong strong women so I do believe that women are strong are capable and now have the platform to walk forward and do business there's so much there I mean you're using social media as a force for good I was going to bring up what you just brought up I was actually going to say that without in any way sort of being threatened with a punch from Tyson the strength from you the constant that's what you're talking about a mother that has to get up every single day and deal with sickness, deal with all sorts of unforeseen, let alone just the constant schedule and emotional side of things.

20:33You're like a rock. Whereas Tyson, however his schedule may be, it might be that it's sort of an ascending crescendo to get to a fight and build for that. And then you can have to come down, you can relax, you can stop. I'm not trying to compare, but just using that scenario of you. you are a constant force you have to show up every single day every day I've just said this morning waking up in this hotel doing this shoot today you know I have got the most crazy schedule today you've seen it it's manic we should give context anyone watching listening this is like 7 30 in the morning yeah you have a Netflix crew waiting outside to take you through a whole schedule of other TV interviews and you're launching your own business you know you're launching something that is and this feels like a spa day compared to being at home you've got slippers on I have slippers I am I am in my element I'm in my luxury my hair's been brushed my makeup's been part on I'm sitting having adult conversations normally by now I'm knee-deep in Weetabix breakfast I'm doing teeth hair every pack lunches trying to get out the door by this time so multitasking multitasking steroids today I'm only looking at myself it's very easy a lot of people would describe you as successful you're about to launch a business that literally could be a huge success.

21:45What's your definition of success?

22:19My definition of success would be to be, you know what it is? I can't, you know, push the product, push this. My definition of success is being happy in your home. I can't lie. That is my number one. If you're happy in your home, your success will run. Because if you go to work that day and you know you're coming home to a good home and you're happy that's that's priceless so for me success would be to have a happy home have my children see that you can do everything and to grow up happy to grow up knowing that you can have the business have the family have your life and success would be to to watch my kids grow and you know to get somewhere where I am in life would be amazing for them if I could that is my success I can't deny it my my success would be for them to grow up happy healthy and to know that they can do anything they want to put their mind to and I hope they get it what's a legacy there isn't it there's a huge amount of energy time and commitment you're putting into them from a place of love and and and selflessness but at the same time then watching them flourish and thrive because of your efforts is going to be so rewarding, right?

23:38It already is. It is. It really is. I mean, I'm so proud of my oldest daughter. I've showed her for the last few years, obviously, in a short period of time, she's only 16. She is so much wiser for her age because she's the oldest of seven. You know, I think that's what my mum was. My mum was the oldest of eight. So to me, I was like one of the oldest. I was like the oldest daughter because I had a sister with special needs, so I had to help and had to grow up quicker in life. My daughter's very old and mature for her age, but I look at her and I'm so proud of her because what she's doing, she's never stepped out of line.

24:07She's never done something where I could say that was disappointing. And she has chose her option. She's chose what option she wants in life. And whatever she chooses from now on, I know I'll be proud of her because she's got such a level head. So that's great for me. It's awesome. And she's got an independence at such a young age to even be engaged and pretty supported all the way through by you and continue that. On that, I read a couple of things in the build-up, literally the last 24 hours of people kind of having an opinion on her being engaged at 16 which is no one else's business other than you as a family but where do you stand with that because just just listening to you now that that element of tribal support that you've got is so unique there's almost a different way of growing up that's quite unique to you guys compared to other people that don't have that maturity don't have that perspective because they're bouncing off just a few people and probably what they see on social media rather than a really real love and proven concept before because you you ultimately got married young yeah you've started your family young and you're authorizing exactly i mean it doesn't always work that way but the fact is you know most of my friends most of my family they they married young they moved on with their life and they're happy they're successful they're doing well so for my daughter to be engaged at 16 i'm under no delusion that it's young of course it is but she's went out with her boyfriend she's been going with him for about 12 months and if she wants to be engaged she has the maturity to understand what it means and she is so happy and so you know I watched the video some people had videoed her when actually the whole thing happened and if you watch she is so happy and so elated that it's beautiful to see and she knows what she wants so if she's engaged at 16 what is it hurting anybody if she was in a serious relationship and moved in with a boyfriend no one would quarrel but because she's following a traditional route and that's what she wants to do then people have this big opinion you're too young you're too young if she wanted to start a business at 16 would she be too young she wants to start a life with her boyfriend at 16 she's not too young i believe you should do whatever you think is right if it's not hurting anyone why is it hurting why has everybody got this negative opinion but you know i say everyone there's been a lot of support for her there's been a lot of people say you know what my mother and father met at 16 and 17 18 they was married they've been living together for 40 years isn't that beautiful if that's what happens in her life I'm over the moon happy for her and I think that I said it that's sort of always proof of concept you know that your family are thriving around what you have created what you ended up coming from it's no one else's business right it's working it's working and this is what I say I think as long as you're not hurting anybody then if it works you see it works it's worked for generation after generation then what would be the problem people are ultimately believing you know there's an oppression for women if you are married if you have kids it's it's become this kind of negative image I think there's nothing more lovely I love my life I really I can't deny the matter I love my life you can feel that you can't you cannot fake that you know whether it's me seeing the glint in your eye the passion you've got for your new business the passion you got for your family yeah I'm interested actually in the context of that there's i'm going to use the sort of the word glue like you glue that whole family together you're going to you do it's it's very clear and if tyson would sit here he would he would say that he said it many times probably be terrified yes another word would be the right right i'm just interested because it feels like you're so together i've got you're fully present with me now and then whatever you go and do next you're fully engaged in that where do you get your kind of downtime mindset that allows you to almost reset and do you thrive off the next thing or do ever have that pullback and kind of sit in the bar for your feet up and just kind of go this is my reset to get that time i work better under pressure i pack suitcases quicker under pressure like if i knew i was going on holiday in a week i would not pack until that day before because i work best under pressure so for me talking to somebody isn't isn't pressure this isn't pressure pressure is trying to organize seven kids and get out the door in the morning so for me my reset is uh you know my reset time is to wake up in the morning know that I've took my vitamins know I've took my collagen but like this is what I'm taking at the moment so this is all I take get up in the morning one shot of that I know I've had my vitamins I've had my collagen that's boosting me making me look beautiful but also looking after my body inside then I see to the family see to the home see to kids catch up on emails do my work side of work of life then it's school then it's tea time then it's supermarket shop then it's wash dress feed bedtime for the seven well five little ones two teenagers they see to themselves five little ones in bed and then we have a bedtime that's when i reset so 7 30 is bedtime little ones all go to bed at 7 30 read a story out by eight and then me and Tyson sit together we either wind down watch TV so you make that time together we make that time together that's that's our time we sit together because in between that you've got to understand we're very stretched we're pulled Tyson's pulled with his business I'm pulled with my businesses then in between that there's the kids there's the family life it's hectic our house is hectic you'll see on our Netflix show our life is manic but at that time that is when we reset sit down have a conversation have an adult conversation because I do like speaking to adults even though I talk to toddlers all day and we we have our wind down time and I think that's great so I think that's important for parents I think a bedtime is really really good structure for a family home because I think you need it I think you need a meal time and a bedtime one last quick thing have you ever talked about ADHD have you ever in any way been for diagnosis for ADHD no I haven't reason why I asked I've just been I've just been diagnosed that thriving in chaos being busy like I thought I was busy but you're on another level and I am busy you know I have a whole schedule myself going through today today in London and then I've got my family in the New Forest and so on and it's just it's that whole not kind of collapsing under pressure yeah and so I just wondered if that's a conversation have at some point because there might be another part of understanding ourselves that you know well potentially but if you think about the hyper focus relentless energy and again thriving being busy just just I just felt that I think there's a lot of labels for a lot of things this day and age and I feel like everybody's different everybody's an individual and you can't just label it you've just got to be you and you know do the best you can and you know some people thrive under different situations don't they so we thrive under pressure yes you want to call it ADHD we'll go well you made time for me today I'll be eternally grateful and I can't wait to share this conversation with everyone Thank you very much.