Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, It’s time to go back to my military training. As you know I made a decision to apply to the British Special Forces a few years back. At the time it seemed sensible that I should get as much preparation as possible. I’d already started going through the induction process with 21SAS and…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hey guys, Today I want to walk you through my property journey. If you prefer video, here’s a course I made that you can go through. You’ll notice the course says 3 properties, but it actually ended up being 5. At the time of writing all the deals are still in progress, so technically I…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Maria was a singer I’d found via Facebook within my 2nd-degree network. She looked pretty; she was a singer, and I was taken by her. So, I angled to try to get her to come and record at my studio. After some back and forth she did come, she did record, and then we would…
Reading Time: 8 minutes ‘Deeeeeep Impaaaaakt Recoooorddinnggs’ crooned the singer outside of my mum’s place as I recorded what would become a minor melody for my studio. Just 2-months back I’d be working full time at Deloitte – sat looking at tax returns. And now here I was with a singer who’d come to pen down vocals at my…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, I spoke a while back about discovering my own relationship disorders which ultimately relate to any type of relationship I got into – whether with a friend, intimate relationship partner or my family. It’s easier to look back at it now and see how ‘the dots connect’. In this instance, the dots I…
Reading Time: 12 minutes It used to piss me off a bunch when I was growing up – and I was the spoiled one in my family to begin with anyway! But we grew up – 8 of us in a three-bedroom house. My parents were minimum wage employees and my grandmother (her husband had passed away many years…
Reading Time: 5 minutes With fitness being so popular, companies realise its impact on their bottom line; thus, they are investing more and more in this area. Knowing how to start a fitness business can be a challenging endeavour, but it can also be the most rewarding. Start your fitness business with our step-by-step guide – and build your…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I hired my first intern when I was 24 years old and built Studiobookers in 2011. And from that moment onward everything changed. At the time I’d just received £5,000 from my Uncle for a 7.5% stake in the company. This gave my fledgling company a £66,000 pre-money valuation. Not that I had any idea…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I was an English literature graduate! Getting a job at Deloitte on the graduate tax scheme in 2007 at the height of the credit crunch was like a dream come true. I was among only three people in my graduating class I knew of that had landed such a prestigious job. Hugo had landed a…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey Guys, I sat around a plastic outdoor table up in the mountains of Rio; sipping a Caipirinha with a group of travellers who were all staying at the same hostel with me; reflecting upon the journey that got me to that table. And would leave me with getting a tattoo on my back of…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey Guys, So you heard about project VIP. Now let’s talk about the shameful ‘Articles and Essays’ that I was involved in some years later. We fast forward now to 2014 and I was living in Northolt with my partner Daniela. I was furiously trying to make my tutoring agency work – Gobsmackers! At Brunel…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, I want to keep pulling the curtains back on some things I have done that I’m not proud of – but have still taught me much about business and life and everything in between. Let’s begin with a conference that a girl called Stacey (a PhD student from Aston University I was dating…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hey Guys, I remember when I made the phone call. It was a part of the evening I always looked forward to. At around 9 pm after I finished school – I’d ring Steven Caswell. He was one of my new friends at Bishopshalt since I’d moved schools and I’d ring him at that time…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey Guys, The time is 12.55 pm and Luc flew in from his adopted hometown of Barcelona yesterday with his British partner Amy and their two children Connor and Logan. Amy is the British half of the couple, and they’re here to spend the holiday season with family. Luc is Swiss-British but right now…
Reading Time: 6 minutes In October 2019 I (via Michelle Rubini’s Facebook newsfeed) stumbled into a whole new world of micro-private equity. It turns out that you can actually buy small businesses that are undervalued; improve the business and then scale it. This simple notion of buying businesses absolutely blew my mind. And yet it makes total sense right?…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, I’m 33.5 years old at the time of writing – and in many respects, I’ve been tinkering with ‘business’ since I was 16 years old. There has been Deep Impakt, Deep Impakt Recordings, The CV Guy, Studiobookers, Meet My Tutor (and more) in no particular order. I’ve done and tried a shedload of…