How To Chase Your Dreams Without Fear Holding You Back with Fran Millar | E67

TL;DR

Fran Millar, a former CEO of Team Sky/Ineos and now CEO of Belstaff, describes how her brother David Miller’s doping scandal and fall from grace in cycling shaped her career and mindset. She argues that jobs are not identities, that being honest and direct (even if perceived as “difficult”) is essential, and that the key to chasing dreams is trusting yourself enough to jump into uncertainty and bu

Key insights

• Fran’s brother David entered professional cycling in 1998 (the Festina scandal year), believing he could compete clean; he discovered doping was endemic and expected, resisted for years by focusing on
• The same sport that “ruined” David also built him back up; Fran says the experience taught her that the “framework” around an athlete (or person) can treat them as a commodity rather than helping them
• Fran’s own career rode the coattails of her brother’s success; after his arrest she had to stand in the velodrome as “the sister of this shamed cheating lying horrible human being” and saw colleagues