As she lined up alongside 30,000 other hopeful applicants, Yasmina Siadatan didn’t expect to get through the day, let alone an entire series of BBC’s hit reality show, The Apprentice. She was wrong! After making history by reaching the series’ first all female final in 2009, Yasmina was officially crowned “The Apprentice”. She went from running a restaurant to working with Lord Sugar, former Dragon’s Den star James Caan, and even the then Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. An impressive route for someone who had it only graduated four years prior to appearing on the tv show!

Yasmina talks to us about her international and multicultural upbringing, having entrepreneurship in her DNA, how she handles being a woman in a male dominated industry and, balancing motherhood with her career and much more.

"This is about knocking down doors and not being afraid to be turned down. For every opportunity that has been in front of me, there will have been countless opportunities that I’ve gone for that I've been turned down for. And it’s having a kind of relentless resilience, to want to make a difference and want to succeed."