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Hazel Bowen

Aug 26, 2026

0:46
So if I can sort of get in the time machine and bring you back to the past, and maybe you can sort of give me a bit of an understanding in terms of your background, where you grew up, your school, so I can get a real feel for you.
1:01
Sure thank you.
1:03
So I would say for someone who works in financial services my background isn't that common although I don't know that for sure but from my personal experience and that is that I come from quite a poor family sort of the lower end of working class and I grew up in I grew up in Norwich in Norfolk went to state school for the first part of my life and I just to provide context, because I think if you say, you know, like not wealthy or poor or however you want to describe it, people can think different things.
1:36
But for context, I lived in a household where we would run out of electricity, not have hot water, didn't have central heating, that kind of stuff.
1:44
So, you know, that end of the scale.
1:48
And I fortunately, I'm very academic.
1:51
And so although I went to some schools that were in more deprived areas to start with.

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21:13
So when the second diagnosis, when that came, how did you feel? What was your emotion?

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