My alcoholic dad threatened me with a knife when I was six - now I'm set to run a £300k company helping other women

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'When I was six my dad threatened me with a knife - now I run a successful £300k business'

AS A child, Nicki Louise James was terrified of her alcoholic father, who once threatened her with a knife when she was just six years old.

Just because you’ve had a troubled past doesn’t mean you can’t still have success, and I’ve found it’s part of what drives me.Now she runs her own business branding and coaching company, working exclusively with female entrepreneurs When he came back, drunk, he was angry I’d made holes in the bread trying to spread the butter and he threatened me.

Over the next six years, I was made redundant from various magazines, four times, before taking a job as art editor on Olive magazine.My husband Rob, 31, is a copywriter and we did our own stationery for our August 2015 wedding. "This brand new series will help share different stories which I hope will act as inspiration and show just what can be achieved with grit and determination."

 

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