The Fast and The Curious with Jane Evans

0:00Jane Evans:Jane, are you ready for the fast and the curious? I am. Let's go. If you could have dinner with any historical female leader, who would it be and why? Makeda. Why? Kirinashiba. She came with 120 talents of gold, which is a talent was a whole human being. Oh my word. She was a powerful queen that came to question Solomon. I would very much like to question her. I think such a good answer. People or dogs? Dogs. I'm with you on that one. What's one book that completely changed your perspective on leadership? Business is unusual. Anita Roddick. She was one of these women that was absolutely wrecked by the media.

0:38But if you look at everything that she was doing, she was so far ahead of her time. It is incredible.

0:46Jane Evans:What was your favourite decade to live in? 80s. How do you unwind after a busy day? Bath. What's the quickest way to kill a brilliant idea? Give it to a lawyer. what's a technology or trend that gives you hope for the future ai okay cool what's a personal ritual or practice that keeps you grounded breathing do you know what we just need to all do more of that don't we just breathing just yeah it's everything everything you know stress okay um and also giving things a bit of time i will try and give a small decision three to five minutes a big 172 hours. Netflix release a series Unvisible the Jane Evans story who would play you?

1:27Jane Evans:Sigourney Weaver. Which ad campaign do you wish you'd created? Heineken. Who was or is the most influential mentor in your life? Verna Wilkins. So Verna Wilkins was the first publisher of children's books for multicultural children. She was my next door neighbour growing up so she was this amazing grenadian queen who lived next door that i just adored but i had a very traditional very 50s 60s housewife mother and next to me was this woman that was changing the world and i always say that the universe gave me two mothers it gave me one that like wrapped me in cotton wool and fed me well and one that just made me know that i could damn well change the world What's one thing about getting older that no one tells you but should?

2:17Post-menopause is fucking amazing. Everybody talks about how bad menopause is, but oh my God, what's on the other side? The confidence. Like, I could tell you the day I finished my menopause, and I swear to God, I sat there and went, oh my God, is this how confident David Droga felt at 25?

2:40when all of those chemicals that have been in your body since you were like 12 years old have gone you don't feel young you feel like a 10 year old again you feel like anything is possible

2:52Jane Evans:okay I'm bringing on the menopause now I'm like get this done if you had a billboard in Times Square for one day what would it say I think it would have to be about the you know everything you've ever learnt is bullshit. Everything has always been men's stories. Start listening to some women's stories. Start finding out where real women's power is because, yeah, we're fed off of men's stories. Christopher Nolan's making the bloody Iliad again. I mean, how many bloody times do we have to, I mean, everything's based on the Iliad anyway. And now they're remaking the bloody thing again. It was like...

3:26Jane Evans:Yawn. I do want you to have a billboard, though, that says the don't moan, fix it. I do think that's such a good saying. Don't mind fix it. What's the last thing you Googled? It was about the Sirius star. So the Sirius star is the goddess star, and it only comes up once a year. And it used to be the start of the new year in the Nile, and it would be when the Nile floods. And so it's actually the most, for women, it's the most powerful star of the year. And it comes up at different times all around the world. So in Egypt, I think it starts on July the 28th, and it comes to us on August the 28th.

4:02And it's in Alice Springs on July the 28th as well, which is really quite interesting that Egypt and Alice Springs are. So, yes, I've marked it in my diary that I'm going to wake up that morning because it's the first star on the horizon.

4:14Jane Evans:Just got to say, you're so interesting and you have such a good curiosity. I never would have ever Googled or checked anything like that. You've definitely inspired me to think more. What trend from your younger years do you wish would come back? Disco. Glitterball. Disco. Disco. The world needs disco. We need to get dancing. What would you say to a midlife woman who says, it's too late for me? Fuck off. What's something totally unexpected about you that people get wrong? I'm actually an introvert. Hey, no way. I come out, I do all of this, then I go and hide again. And my alone time is so important to me.

4:53Everybody thinks I'm this massive extrovert. I'm really not at all.

4:56Jane Evans:So that you get your energy to be able to then do that. yeah this takes a lot of adrenaline it does isn't it it's exhausting i think i go home after this to bed um what's your guilty pleasure that absolutely shouldn't be guilty oh no my guilty pleasure should be guilty um what is it smoking um i love smoking never find i i i come from a family my earliest memory is meeting my 92 year old um suffragette great grandmother with a woodbine hanging out of one side of her mouth and a stick in the other going, ooh, ooh, ooh. So I come from a long line of smokers. So I find it very difficult to believe that it's going to kill me.

5:38Okay. And, yeah, that's my guilty pleasure that is guilty. And I wouldn't expect anybody else to do it, but... It's yours. You can have it.

5:47Jane Evans:If you had a walk-on song that came on every time you entered a room, what would it be? Unstoppable by Sia. Oh, what a one to end on. Thank you so much. That is your fast and the curious. Thank you.

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