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“A while back, somewhere in Soho, a lad from Lancashire embarked upon making his dream of owning a restaurant a reality. Fast forward to today and that same lad now has a chain of 7 restaurants.”

Stephen founded Le Bad based on a concept of delivering high end kebabs at an affordable price point.

We cover his journey, from university, to a job in finance, to early days of Le Bab and beyond. Most people at some point have day dreamed about running a restaurant and what it would be like. Stephen discusses the realities with us, and is open about some of the struggles they’ve faced along the way, along with some good insight into what makes for a successful restaurant. *spolier alert, location location location

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Today we welcome Will Mellors-Blair to the show.

Will was a gifted young footballer, in the Manchester United academy at the age of 9, for a long time his dream was to become a professional.

That dream didn’t work out and Will has had to come to terms with that along with having to reinvent himself and find fresh purpose.

He’s now the founder of Fitpack, a company looking to help large businesses optimise their workforce through a combination of practises focussed around mindfulness and fitness.

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Today we welcome Michael Serwa to the show.

Michael is known as the UK’s best paid life coach, he set out to achieve that title as being the best was too subjective.

Michael shares with us, his personal story; from childhood, to arriving in the UK without much to his name, to getting his first client and beyond. He’s informative, charming and open about himself and his methods for success.

We share who he is but also get him to offer some useful advice that anyone who’s listening can take away and apply to their own lives as what Michael charges is likely to be out of reach for most.

As we continue our series on rest recuperation and self care we wanted to get a life coach on board to share an informed opinion on how someone can manage their own life, tying in specifically to the self care element of our subject.

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Today we welcome Geoff Grief to the show

Geoff is a Professor at the University of Maryland and conducts social research along with publishing books and articles, all of which have a focus on social issues. One of the pieces of research Geoff has conducted, which led to book “buddy system,” was a study into male friendship and it was this book and body of research that we wanted to talk to Geoff about.

This episode is coming out in November, during which there is a push for Movember, a movement where men grow moustaches to raise awareness for issues surrounding male mental heath and specifically suicide amongst men.

One of the points raised in the book we discuss is how male friendship is on the decline. We hope that by shining a light specifically on male friendship as we do today, that we not only emphasise the importance of maintaining a healthy support network for men, but also give out some pointers in how to nurture and maintain a male friendship.

This is the 3rd episode in our rest, recuperation and self care series. We felt that discussing the importance of maintaining our support network, albeit with a focus on men, was an important component to tie in with the series. Becoming successful can often lead people to focus solely on the financial side of things, perhaps at the expense of things like friendships, however we want to remind everyone of the importance of things such as social and support networks as a part of that journey.

We have further episodes episodes in and around this topic due weekly.

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Today we welcome Noel Jay to the show.

Noel is a sleep scientist based over in New York. He’s been working in the field for over 10 years and came into our orbit via a friend Steffi Schulz, or better known as DnB princess, Something Something.

Any body of information being put together on the topic of rest, recuperation and self care was always going to have to cover the topic of sleep and we knew that having a professional who could discuss the topic of sleep was going to be one of the pillars of this season.

We discuss many topics, from how to sleep better, Noels own unusual route into the field along with some funny tales of past methods for detecting the strength of someones sleep.

We have further episodes episodes in and around this topic due weekly.

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Today we welcome Laura Reeves to the show.

Laura has done a lot of work with plant based medicine and journeyed deep into the amazon in a quest to free herself from the stresses and strains of living in our modern society. Now back in the civilised world, she is trying to bring the lessons she’s learnt on that journey to help people cope and live more fulfilled lives, without having to go all the way to the deepest depths of the jungle.

We cover what her work involves and some of the experiences she’s had while working with psychedelics, the lessons these experiences have taught her, along with some of the techniques used to try and release the baggage / trauma that we carry without even realising it, or perhaps only realise too late.

You may ask what this has to do with success… Well, its very difficult to feel truly successful unless you are happy with yourself, many people reach the top only to find out that it was not all it was cracked up to be, just look at the number of celebrities we loose all too early, whether it be to drugs or suicide, to quote Jim Carrey, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

If fame and fortune is not the answer then what is? We cover that along with other things in this episode

As always with Shine a Light, we want to take a look at some of the things that contribute towards success that perhaps aren’t spoken about often enough. In Season 2 we are covering the topic of rest recuperation and self care. In this first episode of the new season, we are covering a topic that is in vogue in the self care sphere, the use of psychedelic medicine. The idea is that its use will enable us to live more freely in the here and now, and hopefully in doing so, feel like a better, more successful version of ourselves.

We have further episodes episodes in and around this topic due weekly.

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Today we welcome Mooch to the show.

Michael Mooch, or as he’s known online, Moochabout, is a serial entrepreneur with a tendency towards decadence and the live show. His first business was in music where he put on club shows to an under 18’s market, more recently he’s been making waves in the comedy scene and runs a comedy club in Vauxhall.

A man who’s always entertaining to be around, you could mistake Mooch for the class clown or joker but that would be at your own peril, look at little deeper and you’ll find someone who is insightful, intelligent and ruthless when it comes to his work. Never afraid to share his opinion, Mooch was a great guest who’s not afraid to share both his successes and failures and just about everything else in between…

We hope you enjoy our chat with him.

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Today we welcome Steven Sulley to the show.

Steven is a successful contemporary art dealer. He specialises in street art and specifically in trading work by an artist called Richard Hambleton from NYC. He does this alongside other ventures which include a health and wellness app, a clothing company all while investing in property. He’s a busy boy…

Outside of work and making money, Steven is a boxing enthusiast. He runs his own podcast, the Steven Sulley Study, he covers a wide range of topics and has a good variation of guests from his professional network but there are a number of interviews with boxers and boxing related people which are particularly exciting.

We hope you enjoy our chat with him.

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Today we wrap up season 1.

This is just a quick episode to introduce our listeners to Gareth who helps to create the podcast alongside Tom.

We have a quick discussion on what the show has covered thus far, plus we introduce what you can expect from season 2, along with answering some questions we’ve received along the way.

We will be back and releasing shows every Thursday from here on.

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Today we welcome MC Inja to the show.

Inja is now firmly established as Drum and Bass royalty, he’s signed to Hospital records, is MC of choice for Kings of the Rollers and has most recently started his own solo show.

We brought him in to have a chat about his career; he shared stories about moments that may have felt small at the time but actually had big consequences further down the road, along with taking a peek into the creative process of song creation.

We loved Inja’s positive energy and hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.

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