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# Michelle Niziol
- URL: https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/guests/michelle-niziol/
- Published: 2026-08-04T08:46:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T11:48:46.000Z
- Description: Entrepreneur running a multi-million-pound business empire, fired in week one of The Apprentice and unbowed by it.
- Author: Elliott King
- Tags: guest, Michelle Niziol

**Entrepreneur / Former Apprentice Candidate**

Michelle Niziol was fired in week one of The Apprentice, and made that rejection the least important fact about her: today she runs a multi-million-pound business empire built on the resilience the boardroom never got to see.

On The BEYOND Podcast she talked with host and producer Aleksandra King about the loneliness that led her to apply, managing success and failure, the safety net that personal trauma builds in an entrepreneur, gender dynamics and the confidence gap, and redefining the balanced leader.

## Credentials

- Runs a multi-million-pound business empire
- Former Apprentice candidate
- Speaker on resilience, rejection and women in business

## Their episode

*Why Getting Rejected Can Be the Best Thing to Happen to You | Michelle Niziol*, on The BEYOND Podcast with Aleksandra King.

[Listen to the episode](https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/beyond-the-boradroom-podcast-rejected-positives/)