Nicki has Gott It - but It Didn't Come Easy ; Monday Interview the Founder of the North East's Best Known Events Company has Built the Business From the Bottom Up, Clambering Over Hurdles Whenever They Have Blocked Her Path - and Even Cancer has Not Been Enough to Bring Her Down. Graeme King Talked to Nickie Gott.

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YOU do not have to speak to Nickie Gott for long to realise how she has achieved all she has. It is not so much that she talks at quite a pace, but she doesn't waste words and makes a point of explaining all the support she has had along the way.

Hardly ever is the telling of an anecdote complete without reference to her parents, her husband, her children, her team - all the many people who make up her life and business.

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Nicki has Gott It - but It Didn't Come Easy ; Monday Interview the Founder of the North East's Best Known Events Company has Built the Business From the Bottom Up, Clambering Over Hurdles Whenever They Have Blocked Her Path - and Even Cancer has Not Been Enough to Bring Her Down. Graeme King Talked to Nickie Gott.

Last year Nickie won the Susan Dobson Award for Entrepreneurship, the top award at the North East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Standing on the stage of Hall One in the Sage Gateshead, she was clearly ecstatic and, unusually for her, almost lost for words. It was vindication for her career after many years of ups and downs, and within days her company's biggest ever contract for the Winter Festival in Edinburgh was in full swing.

The 42-year-old's route to the stage that night was a long one. She left education without any qualifications having never 'got' school.

She could never understand why she had to learn all the subjects thrown at her and ...

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