In episode sixty one of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder and CEO of Indie Lee, Indie Lee.

Indie Lee grew up with a clear vision, a literal checklist, of how she wanted her life to look- two children, two yellow labradors, a beautiful home and fast-paced corporate job. She had ticked every one of those boxes before realising that she was, in her own words, “a passenger of her own life,” checking boxes rather than living. 

Indie decided to take a step back and leave work to spend more time with her children, but being a classic Type A, her idea of slowing down somehow led to her working in AND BUILDING a 750 square foot greenhouse. In summer 2008, Indie was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, meaning she could no longer work in her beloved greenhouse. She was dealt another blow later that year, in the form of a brain tumour, with one doctor telling her she had just 6 months to live. 

“When you’re given six months to live, you decide how you want to live your life,” Indie tells me, so she revisited her passion for nature and set to work on her brand, Indie Lee. Indie’s tumour was successfully removed on April 22nd 2009, Earth Day, a day Indie describes as her rebirth. By the end of that year, Indie had officially launched her brand. Today, over 10 years on, that brand is sold all over the world. 

In this conversation, Indie and I discuss her belief in karma and how she refused to enter surgery with any loose ends, how it feels to be forced to step away from something you deeply love, and her surprising first request when she came out of her operation. 

You can read this interview now at glowjournal.com

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