About
George David Hodgson is a fashionpreneur, public speaker and mental health campaigner. In 2014 he founded the award-winning fashion brand 'Maison de Choup' out of his severe anxiety and OCD episode. The brand has been recognised by the likes of Vanity Fair, which referred to Maison de Choup as 'The Fashion Brand with a Mental Health Cause at its Heart'. It also won the British Fashion Startup Award in 2016 for such an inspiring story.
Since launching Maison de Choup, George has gone on to do public speeches and workshops in schools, colleges and universities about how he started his fashion brand from such a dark place. He tells the story of his battle with severe Anxiety and OCD, not being able to leave his bedroom for 3 years and washing his hands up to 50x a day to running a fashion brand full time. He is incredibly honest about his suffering and talks about how everyone should be more open about their mental health, especially young men.
George works with YoungMinds as a Youth Advisor on the Amplified programme giving workshops to professionals and is also a Youth Ambassador for The Shaw Mind Foundation.
In August 2017, he became a qualified Youth Mental Health First Aider and received his MHFA Certificate of Completion.
George has appeared on BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and Radio 6 Music as well as appearing on BBC News at 6/10pm with Hugh Pym and BBC Breakfast.
What he does
Talks - Mental Health / The Personal Battle
George gives talks at schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK, delivering assemblies on topics such as mental health, fashion, how he started Maison de Choup from severe mental health and his personal battle with Anxiety & OCD.
School Talks
College Talks
University Talks
Organisational Talks
Workplace Talks
Previous Talks Include
Conde Nast College of Fashion & Design (London)
Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton)
The Westgate School (Winchester)
Godolphin School (Salisbury)
Salisbury 6th Form College (Salisbury)
Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS)
Malmesbury School
Press
BBC Breakfast
BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat
BBC Radio 2
Radio 4 Today Programme
Awards
British Fashion Startup Award 2016 - WINNER
Youth Mental Health First Aider - Certificate (2017-)
YoungMinds Youth Advisor (2017-)
Shaw Mind Foundation Youth Ambassador (2018-)
Testimonials
“George, now 21, is a survivor with a successful fashion brand that gives back to those suffering with mental health issues.”
“His story and the outcome is so inspirational and I felt honoured to have spoken to someone that has developed something that is so positive for so many.
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“Thank you so much for such a wonderful and inspiring talk. The feedback from the students has been amazing and they really loved it and were just so delighted that you came and told us about Maison de Choup.”
“It was great meeting you, you’re an incredibly inspirational person.”
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