Nilesh Makwana is the CEO of the global award-winning business illuminance Solutions. This memoir is a vivid, honest and often hilarious look back on a life full of challenges, of good luck and bad and all the things Nilesh learnt along the way. It's a blueprint for how to succeed at university, in business, and how to bounce back after failure. Nilesh Makwana has forged his own path and shares his experience in the hope that his story might ignite a spark and furnish hope and self-belief in others.

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Nilesh Makwana about his humble beginnings in Gujarat, India, the challenges of life as an international student, the job that opened his eyes to the world, the power of persistence and the unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit inside him.