2 | BERNADETTE SOARES: From India With $500 to Beauty Empire to NZ First
Most people seeing Bernadette Soares today know the businesswoman, the political candidate and the woman standing for New Zealand First in Upper Harbour.
But that’s not where her story started.
For Episode 2 of Past The Name, we go right back to India.
Bernadette speaks about growing up in a wealthy family, being surrounded by servants and not fully understanding how privileged that upbringing was until she eventually left India and started again in New Zealand.
She talks about her father, a senior public servant who she says refused bribes even when money, gifts and pressure were put in…
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