I left school with 2 GCSEs - now I own a million-pound leak-proof potty company

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'I was raised by alcoholic father & left school with two GCSES - now I own a million-pound leak-proof potty company'

WHEN Amanda Jenner left school at 15 her headmaster said she would never amount to anything - but he couldn't have been more wrong.

After leaving school with GCSEs in cookery and drama, Amanda got a job at an insurance telesales company where she quickly discovered her talent for sales and came up with the idea of My Carry Potty after her son George - now 23 - began potty training.series about ordinary women who have launched incredible businesses.Credit: expert_amanda_jenner/Instagram

Describing how bullies used to pick on her, Amanda recalled: "People branded me as the girl with funny parents. They'd say, 'she's the girl with the drunk dad' or 'the girl with no mum'."Credit: expert_amanda_jenner/InstagramMoney was tight in Amanda's household and the Christmas after their mother left, her father couldn't afford to buy them presents.

With two-year-old George and newborn Holly in tow, Amanda was on Poole high street one day when her eldest told her he needed the toilet. But while there's no denying it was an unpleasant being yelled at in the street, the incident did get Amanda thinking: there had to be a way around this.Credit: expert_amanda_jenner/InstagramCredit: expert_amanda_jenner/Instagram

 

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