The Turning Point With Dan Maw

Tim Sanders spent most of his early career on the cutting edge of innovation and change. He was an early stage member of Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com, which had the largest opening day IPO in history. After Yahoo acquired the company, Tim was tapped to lead their ValueLab, and by 2001, he rose to Chief Solutions Officer. In 2005, he founded Deeper Media, which provides consulting services for leading brands.

 

Today he is one of the top-rated speakers on the lecture circuit. Tim is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller Love Is the Killer App: How To Win Business & Influence Friends. It’s been translated into over a dozen languages and has been featured in Fast Company, USA Today, the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and on CNN. He’s a master storyteller who offers listeners actionable takeaways that produce results right away. That’s why he’s one of the top speakers on the lecture circuit.

 

Tim's Key Points

* Success is not a direction, you never get there.

* Don't focus on negativity, you'll give up control.

* Fill your mind with good stuff.

 

Guest Links

* Website - www.timsanders.com

* Landing page - www.timsanders.com/turningpint

* Twitter - https://twitter.com/sanderssays

 

Top Quotes

* I was so lucky to be on the ground floor of Mark Cubans company.

* For 15 years, psychologically I’d been going sideways.

* When I was a junior in college, my father was murdered.

* Until that moment, my life was on a rocket ship, I’d already turned it round before.

* I read a quote by Napoleon Hill “Put yourself back in a time when you were loved and when you felt like anything was possible and realises that, that time can be this time.”

* I knew I could be that guy again.

* I called my mum and she asked me one question, “What are you not doing today, that you were doing back when you were on top.”

* Success is not a destination, you never get there.

* Success is a direction and that direction is forward.

* Feed your mind good stuff.

* If you focus on the negative, if you give up control of your mind, you will get bogged down with fear and you won’t move forward.

* Ego economics will get the best of you.

* If you want to be a helpful person, make it clear that you want nothing in return.

* If you’re a likeable manager, you’ll get 30% more productivity out of your people.

* People who are highly liable get better service.

* Don’t worry about being liked, worry about having a likeable personality.

* Make yourself relevant to the other person and they will like you.

* I’ve never found a truly vicious person who ended up happy with what they accomplished.

* I didn’t want to just be a speaker I wanted to speak about the findings of my research.

 

Key Timestamps

* 1:10 - The start

* 2:15 - A personal life turning point

* 4:34 - An all important call

* 6:21 - My first book

* 9:03 - Why we stop striving

* 11:57 - Ego economics

* 15:55 - Likability

* 21:29 - Leadership

* 24:48 - Modern society

* 26.22 - Deeper Media

* 31:42 - Guest links

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Kyle a British designer living and working in Yorkshire who specialises in creating bespoke display typefaces for brands and publications, designing visual identities, and developing innovative typography and imagery that is both dynamic and powerful.

 

He's had the pleasure of working with clients worldwide, of all shapes and sizes to deliver innovative and engaging ideas, from launching small Silicon Valley startups to working with huge businesses such as Adobe and Bosch.

 

Kyle's Key Points

* Always push yourself and always be curious for what’s out there.

* Get out of your comfort zone because it will lead to something.

* Embrace the unknown.

* However long you search for the answers to all your questions, you will never answer them all, there has to be a leap of faith.

 

Guest Links

* Website - www.kylewilkinson.co.uk

* Twitter - www.twitter.com/mrkylewilkinson

* Instagram - www.instagram.com/mrkylewilkinson/

 

Top Quotes

* I left school and felt the pressure to go to college and study something quite academic.

* I studied geography, phycology, human biology and maths for some reason.

* I did that for 2 years then crashed and burnt by failing the courses which caused a re-assess.

* I decided to take up photography as it was something I was already interested in.

* Straight away, I fell in love with that type of thing and coming up with ideas.

* I wanted the top grade and to get the A*.

* Three-quarters of the way through the course, I ended up in the hospital.

* It resulted in me missing an exam that I couldn’t resit.

* My tutor at the time said, “Why don’t you do the design course”.

* At that point, I didn't even know what design was, I took it on his advice.

* Anything that you can imagine, you can create with a pencil.

* Design for me is the thing that I was here to do.

* I rustled a portfolio together and they offered me a job there and then.

* Thankfully they let me go out for the few hours a week to study my course.

* The senior designer left a week after I started and my responsibilities went up.

* I once sent a magazine to print all wrong, I won’t do that again.

* We had our normal Friday meeting and was told I was being made redundant.

* It was literally, pack your things and get out.

* A friend of a friend said he might have a job for me and I said: “I’ll take it, just tell him I’ll take it”.

* The work was shit and I knew it wasn’t going to be a long-term thing.

* I knew, even at that early stage that I had a goal even though I didn’t really know what it was.

* I became their go-to guy for when they wanted a project launching or doing.

* One day someone brought a magazine called Computer Arts into the office.

* I was introduced to all this wonderful work and all this work that people were doing for big brands.

* I realised then, that every “thing” is designed.

* I started to get burn inside, wanted to be in that magazine.

* Looking back, that's probably when my publishing career kind of ended.

* We started doing things on evenings and weekend, running surely on passion and tequila.

* You are only really as good as your last job.

* We set off to provide a quality service and the work we wanted to do.

* We didn’t have a month where we didn’t get paid.

* It’s a case of putting the brakes on sometimes and making sure everything is considered.

* We realised that we had a collective skill set that worked really we...

Matthew Turner is an author & storyteller who works with entrepreneurs, founders & creative thinkers to build thriving businesses that light a fire within them.

After interviewing 163 authority figures, Matthew’s unearthed how successful people overcome failure and adversity, not only ensuring they don’t ruin their livelihood but craft their greatest idea yet.

Through his research & findings, he’s ready to share what separates successful business people apart from everyone else, and how you can implement a successful mindset that lets you build a happy, free & successful work/life balance — let alone profit & all the other goodness that comes with success & infamy.

Matt's Key Points

 

* One of the biggest mistakes is being too general.

* Make sure you start ready.

* Know what you want to do and who you’re going to do it for.

* You need to have a plan to get through the wondering through the wilderness stage.

* Figure out what success means to you.

Guest Links

 

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/turndog_million

* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successfulmistake

* Book Page: http://successfulmistake.com

 

Top Quotes

 

* I got a masters and worked in marketing, I always liked marketing.

* I was never a great employee.

* Not a good yes man.

* It’s about 5 years since I left my job and I didn’t really know what I wanted to do.

* I wanted to focus more on my writing.

* I was scared of making mistakes, I was scared of making any real steps.

* I wanted to speak to people about how they changed their biggest mistake in their success.

* People were very open and were like “which mistake”.

* I can assure you ten fold, that the person you most admire has made huge mistakes.

* A mistake is only a mistake if it happens and you learn from it.

* We play up these narratives in our mind and over analyse and make it into a huge deal.

* The detail is often the difference between something good and something great.

* I wish I’d given it 6 moths to start something and to validate it.

* I term it “wandering in the wilderness”, people try a bit of everything to figure out what they like.

* I’m more willing to say no to things.

* Sometimes you have to hear the same story over and over until it clicks.

* Being broad just isn’t good enough.

* The more focused you can be, the better.

* You need to force yourself to deliver.

* Nobody will start day one with the end product.

* You’re not ready until you now what the hell it is you’re doing and who you’re doing it for.

* It’s difficult to make a game changer.Everything I’m building at the minute is getting more laser focused.

* You live and you learn and you make sure you don’t make those mistakes again.

* I know how I work better and how I don’t.

* It all begins with awareness.

* You have the information you need at any given point to see what is and isn’t working, the mistakes, the everything but we become blind by keeping ourselves busy.

* Once you become aware of something, you can actually take action.

* Awareness on its own is nothing, it’s about how you apply that awareness so you act.

* It’s hard, continues to be hard and I don’t think it ever stops being hard.

* Mistakes and adversity occur in all walks of life.

* The accomplishment of turning something around is big.

* Don’t rush into it, you’ve got plenty of life.

Colin Gray is a podcaster, a writer and a PhD in digital education. He specialises in engaging through content, with podcasting at its core and how to publish prolific content without killing yourself. His company, The Podcast Host, helps anyone to grow an audience by combining podcasting, blogging and video to cultivate fanatical fans.

 

These days, Colin writes regularly on podcasting and content marketing, and he produces five podcasts along with his team at The Podcast Host. The topics include mountain biking, podcasting, subversive leadership and running a business. PodCraft is the flagship, a season-based show which tackles Podcasting topics head-on over a series of shows, looking to create a definitive guide each time.

Colin is also an experienced speaker, both in new media and in the academic world. Most recently he was a main-track speaker at New Media Europe and spoke at Podcast Movement in Texas, USA.

 

Colin’s Key Points

 

* Spend a year or two building your content first.

* You can’t build a business around content in 3 months, it takes at least a year.

 

Guest Links

 

* Website: https://www.ThePodcastHost.com

* Twitter: http://twitter.com/thepodcasthost

* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_podcast_host/

* Our coaching membership: https://www.ThePodcastHost.com/academy/

* Podcraft: https://www.ThePodcastHost.com/podcraft/

* The Numbers Game: https://www.ThePodcastHost.com/numbers/

 

Top Quotes

 

* I soon discovered that astrophysics is far less of looking into the cosmos with fascination and far more ridiculously hard equations and maths so, I quit that pretty quick.

* It was through web design that I got into podcasting.

* I discovered quickly that most successful freelancers have had a good employed career first.

* I ended up teaching web design in a school.

* Podcasting was new and it was a new tool to get your content out.

* I ended up teaching the lecturers how to podcast as a learning tool.

* My job was teaching people how to use new tech.

* Some people were aggressively against technology.

* The site started out as content and teaching.

* I ended up taking on a PHD in online education.

* This gave me the safety net to jump into The Podcast Host.

* The plan was to keep growing the affiliate but to start and do client work and online courses.

* The client work we were doing wasn’t very scalable.

* The client asked for more and more and if I was paying for a service, I’d want to get the most from it but it gets to a point when it’s starting to take the piss a little bit.

* It was probably a bit my fault as I didn’t manage it that well or set boundaries well enough.

* You really do need to set good T’s & C’s.

* You can be flexible but under moderation.

* It’s really hard to put boundaries in later.

* We did a bit of good cop, bad cop on the clients.

* If you have a team, delegating the decision making can help a little bit.

* We setup a much more robust project management system.

* I’m a bit of a tools geek, I’ll try anything.

* The big focus for me was to reach more people.

* I found it was difficult to sell courses even though we had great traffic.

* The solution was the bundle it all up into a membership.

* I wanted a reliable recurring income for the business.

* I completely underestimated the repositioning of the company.

Jessica Kupferman is an internet and marketing pioneer who is unafraid of new platforms and opportunities. She began her career over 15 years ago, selling banner ads when the internet was considered a fad. In her career, she’s worked with successful small business and some of the largest companies in the world including Comcast, Subaru, Leisure Fitness, and Bank of America. Now, she is one of the most recognised experts in the content marketing industry, currently focused on podcasting media.

 

Jessica is the co-host and co-founder of the She Podcasts brand where she supports and develops unique female voices in the growing medium of podcasting. Her popular Facebook community boasts over 3,200 members, and she has successfully spoken, hosted events, and gotten sponsorship for her podcasts and events. She was also the host of the very successful Lady Business Radio where she conducted over 150 interviews including notable female entrepreneurs such as Tory Johnson from Good Morning America, Andrea Beaman from Top Chef, and Shark Tank’s Lori Cheek.

In 2016, Jessica launched j/k media agency after seeing the lack of proper representation for podcasters in the media space. Working with her clients, Jessica is able to use her Platform Model to successfully obtain many sponsorship and advertising dollars for her clients.

Jessica is a mother of three, a wife, and most importantly a woman whose talent and passion is helping individuals find their own voices through the medium of podcasting and make a living using that voice.

 

Jessica's Key Points

 

* You have to be self-aware.

* You have to know how you work best.

* You need to know yourself very well.

* Know what your flaws are and where your strengths lie.

* Be ok with the plan if it changes.

 

Guest Links

 

* http://www.shepodcasts.com

* http://www.jessicakupferman.com

* Twitter

* Instagram

* Facebook

 

Top Quotes

 

* I have a communication’s degree which can go many different ways.

* I didn’t really know which direction to go because, in my senior year, I had a baby.

* I always wanted as a kid to have my own ad agency.

* Almost everyone I know has started their career in banking.

* I moved to marketing and started selling banner advertising.

* I sold it to people who didn’t know why they wanted it or where it would click to.

* I either had a great situation and a miserable boss or a great boss and a miserable situation.

* I don’t really like selling, I don’t like to pitch and the following up.

* I wanted to be a graphic designer and let others do the pitching.

* I would get a job that wasn’t challenging and spend my spare time reading about design.

* You don’t know how much time you’ve got left, so why would you spend your day doing something you don’t like. I was literally sick to my stomach every day.

* I went for my other dream that I was afraid to go for.

* My husband said I had to get a business coach who specialised in ADHD because that’s what I have.

* The first thing my ADHD coach did was give me two clients.

* You can overthink your decision until death.

* There is no better way to learn that “off we go”.

* I really recommend having a business coach.

* Plan for what you need.

* Each project was a learning curve as they came,

Hani Mourra is a Dad, Softwareprenuer, and the creator of several software tools to help content creators automate the distribution of live videos and podcasts across multiple platforms and grow their audience faster.

 

 

Hani's Key Points

 

* You don’t have to know your end game right away.

* You don’t know until you try.

* Start straight away, don’t wait.

* Do some validation for your ideas.

* Start an email list early.

 

Guest Links

 

* Website

* Twitter

* Facebook

 

Top Quotes

 

* A friend of mine convinced me to go into blogging and teach people how to use video.

* I had no idea what I was doing, I just wanted to get content out there.

* What my end game was, I had no idea, I just wanted to get content out and build an email list.

* I wasn’t excited about teaching and doing an online course.

* How do I combine my skill set and my passion?

* Standing still and not doing anything is the worst thing you can do.

* What tool can I build for myself?

* I knew I had a problem and I wanted to fix it.

* I didn’t know who was going to buy it, I didn’t know anything, I just got started.

* If nobody wanted it, I knew I could use it.

* I stumbled across problems with my developer.

* Even though I’m a technical guy, I still got taken for a ride.

* I learnt so many things along the way, I didn’t even know what they were when we started.

* As we went along on the journey, we adapted and we changed.

* If I’d have thought too much about it, I would have hesitated.

* I believe that being out there, creating content and building things will connect you to people and then other people.

* Having a positive response gave me confidence that I can do this.

* I got that itch, I wanted to build something else.

* Someone said, “ You have this great video tool, why don’t you make one for audio?”

* I launched Simple Podcast Press on my own, through my own networks.

* I didn’t know anyone in the podcasting space, I was just introduced by people.

* I was invited to demo my software at a conference.

* Nothing beats meeting people, face to face.

* None of this would have happened if I didn’t go to that conference.

* I had to be there to help people.

* It’s just in my nature, I like to help people.

* I didn’t know if people were willing to pay, I just knew it was a good solution.

* If you have to drop something, drop it and move onto something else.

* There is no shame in dropping something.

* I wanted something that was independent of WordPress.

* This is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, it’s whole new territory.

* I can see a product working before it done.

* It’s so exciting to see something come to life.

* I’m hitting my stride now and it’s years later.

* I feel there is a lot more coming, I’m not done.

* I almost stopped to project and nothing would have happened.

* A month before I launched Podcast Press, a famous podcaster launched his own podcast player.

* I thought, how can I compete with this, there is no way.

* I put my blinders on and kept on with my goal.

* I thought, "why should I continue?”.

* Stick to your course and keep going.

* The key is keeping people excited.

 

Key Timestamps

 

* 0:35 - Rolling back

* 2:26 - Taking it to the next level

Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before entering the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries.

 

While a top performer in the corporate world, his long-term desire was to be his own boss. A good friend one day mentioned the gumball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10-year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries.

Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.

 

Matt’s Key Points

* Keep your eyes wide open.

* Don’t be so proud that you won’t take an opportunity like delivering pizzas.

 

Free e-book

* Live Your Dreams: Top 10 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Vending Busines

 

Guest Links

 

* Twitter

* Facebook

* Website

* LinkedIn

 

Top Quotes

 

* I went into the military to learn.

* Even though I never really had any aspirations to be a pilot, I went to pilot school.

* I was asked to be an instructor.

* I never knew where or when I was going.

* It was quite an exciting lifestyle for a time, it became difficult when we started to have kids.

* I was really close to washing out of pilot school in the first couple of months.

* I had no aviation background, I not a mechanical kind of guy.

* God blessed me with great hand-eye coordination, so I went from near the bottom of my class to near the top.

* I spent about a year and a half selling hospital diagnostic equipment

* The problem I had was that I had a route, I’d speak to the same people and get the same reasons why they didn’t need the diagnostic tools I was selling and I got pretty bored.

* The reason I got to where I did in direct mail so quickly is because I created win-win situations for my clients.

* I got my clients to where they wanted to be quickly so they came to me in the future rather than me going to them.

* I spent time creating wildly profitable campaigns for my clients rather than wining and dining them.

* In my first full year in advertising, I ended up being #1 in the country.

* I did that well, my boss increased my quote by 93%, the office average increase was 5-10%.

* A lost some of my big clients due to them consolidating which ended up cutting my income in half.

* I knew there was no way to work myself out of this hole anytime soon.

* So out of necessity, I started doing things on the side, initially collecting aluminium cans with my son and trading them in.

* There is a 1000% markup on gum balls, so I found a way to use those machines to help me create more money.

* Within around a year and a half, I had 125 locations around Houston, Texas.

* When you’re in a hole and worried about being able to provide for your family, you’re willing to do whatever you’ve got to do.

* I didn’t know anything about vending but by getting into “Action mode”, I figured this thing out.

* I went to check my very first machine because I had to know if people actually used them. When I opened it, quarters spilt out all over the floor. That’s when I knew I’d found my answer.

* Over time, I was making thousands of dollars which only required a few hours of my time a month.

* I like change,

Sandra designs and makes bespoke pieces for architectural installation and interior spaces using a wide range of materials including ceramics, wood, plaster, plastics and concrete.

 

Design inspirations are derived from abstract digital photography of texture and imagined texture. The photograph captures physical and ephemeral memory cues of places visited. Sandra's photographs can be art in themselves or inspiration for her textured work. Digital technology is used to translate ideas into two and three-dimensional surfaces designs, thus making memories permanent.

Digital technology is used to translate ideas into two and three-dimensional surfaces designs, thus making memories permanent. Digital tools give the maker the opportunity to innovate and keep the handmade vibrant and contemporary. Understanding and responding to material and process sits at the core of Sandra's practice, both to inform making and to develop new working methods.

 

Sandra's Key Points

* There is never a good time, so just do it.

* You will always find a reason not to.

* Be braver about doing different things.

 

Guest Links

 

* www.smoart.com

* Twitter 

* Instagram

 

Top Quotes

* I don’t think I ever made a career choice.

* I ended up in logistics after a career placement.

* I did enjoy the cut and thrust of the project world, which explained my previous boredom.

* I felt like my life was going nowhere.

* The nature of project management meant I had to do a lot of travel.

* My mum was terminally ill and I just thought, what is all of this for?

* My mum was very much of the "war spirit" and we all have a bit of that.

* We all have difficulties in life but at the end of the day, you have to get on with it.

* A lot of your circumstances are how you react to them.

* I returned to work after maternity and wasn’t really happy and involved a lot of time away.

* A lot of things coming together made my decide that it was time to try something different.

* I decided that was it and started college with all the 18-year-olds.

* The success we have as a couple is down to the support of the other person.

* You’re here for a good time, not a long time.

* The bottom had fallen out of the world economy, who’s going to want to buy anything I make now.

* The market fell really quite so I decided to do a masters degree.

* The course I did, really confirmed to me that I was doing the right thing.

* We had to have an income and I went back to doing what I did before.

* When in a project management role, I always have to hold off on my “solve” mentality.

* I never thought that there was anything that was a “blocker”. I certainly had to learn a lot of new things.

* You’ve got to roll with the punches.

* You’ve just got to go for it, at the end of the day is, you will always find a way.

* I now have something that I am happy to do for the rest of my life.

 

Key Timestamps

 

* 0:43 - Never really making a career choice.

* 3:54 - Starting to get a little disillusioned.

* 4:53 - Coming back to the UK.

* 7:01 - The start of the family

* 8:37 - A stiff upper lip

* 10:40 - Returning to work and not being happy

* 12:58 - The support of a loved one

* 16:19 - Graduating in a financial crisis

* 18:42 - How much do degrees matter?

Byron Morrison is the Author of the book ‘Become a Better You’ and founder of Tailored Lifestyles Coaching.

 

His work is all about helping people make maintainable changes to the way they eat, think, move and live, as they become healthier, happier, slimmer versions of themselves. You can book a free ‘start your weight loss journey’ breakthrough session with him at www.tailoredlifestyles.co.uk, where together you will look at everything from your goals to the challenges you want to make, and get a tailored plan to help you get from where you are, to where you want to be’.

 

Byron’s Key Points

* Start with small gradual steps and keep pushing, it’ll be far less daunting.

* Strip it right back and don’t overcomplicate it.

 

Guest Links

* Website – www.tailoredlifestyles.co.uk

* Facebook – www.facebook.com/tailoredlifestyles

* Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/byronmorrisontl

 

Top Quotes

* I came out of University and didn’t know what I wanted to do.

* I tried to convince myself that if I stick with this marketing career that it’d make me happier.

* That actually happened but half way through the interview I realised it wasn’t my job I hated, it was my entire career.

* I went home and decided I wanted to start my own company, write a book and help people with their life.

* My Dad had bowel cancer and spent 25 days in ICU and that gave me a wake-up call as to what my future could be.

* I started making maintainable changes, I then realised that this was my passion.

* We kind of go through life thinking we’re invincible.

* Up to 20% of deaths per year are down to diet and poor lifestyle choices.

* We always leave it until it’s too late.

* We could have a heart attack and drop dead.

* In a few years on a national level, I want to try and change the way people think about and approach food.

* I don’t think the perception of healthy eating help, people take it too far.

* I got so fed up of all of these fad diets, so I decided to write a book.

* We need people to have a maintainable change.

* I sat down and mapped out my entire plan.

* I suckered up and stayed in the job I was in so I could learn.

* If you get to the point were you actually want a change and do whatever it takes.

* I spent 6 moths researching before I started writing and then the writing took about a year.

* I woke up every morning at 4-5 and started writing, went to work and did 9-5 and then came home and wrote until 10 in the evening.

* I only take on clients I can truly help and am passionate about.

* So often people say they want to change but never do anything about it.

* We all need to do more planning.

* What helped me was thinking how I wanted to help people and figuring out what exact steps I need to take.

* I needed to divide my time and figure out whats going to have the most positive impact.

* However long you think something is going to take, double it.

* A lot of people moan about technology but at the same time, we’re more connected than ever.

* If I won the lottery tomorrow and had an endless amount of money, I’d still wake up and do exactly what I’m doing.

* For me, it wasn’t about money, it’s about positive impact.

Key Timestamps

 

* [0:49] – Out of University with no path

* [2:03] – I rethought my entire life

* [4:19] – We can no longer afford to be ignorant

* [9:20] – Better education

* [12:48] – Why I wanted to write a book

Radim Malinic is a creative director and designer living and working in South West London. He runs Brand Nu, a multidisciplinary award winning studio.

 

Before finding his calling in the creative industry, Czech-born Malinic was an ice hockey player, a bassist in death metal bands, an indie DJ, music journalist and student of Economics and Business management. At the break of the new millennium, Malinic moved to the UK to explore the expansive music scene, only to find even a greater interest in art and graphic design. Since then his eclectic interests have seen him working with some of the biggest brands, companies and bands in the world. Clients include Harry Potter, London Film Museum, SyCo, Sprite, WWF and USAID amongst many others.

Aside from his studio work, Radim designs products for his brand ‘November Universe’, releases music and tours globally with his talk designed to inspire and support self-development in the creative industry.

In March 2016, Malinic released his latest publication, Book of Ideas. The #1 Amazon bestseller has helped novices and professionals across the world to find a new way of approaching their creative work.

 

Radim’s Key Points

 

* Don’t let things become stagnant.

* You don’t arrive at your final destination on day two or ten, it’s a constant.

 

Guest Links

 

* Website – www.brandnu.co.uk

* Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/brand__nu/

* Website – http://bookofideas.co.uk

* Book of Ideas – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Ideas-journal-creative-direction/dp/0993540007

 

Top Quotes

 

* I wanted to fly to the moon on my fourth birthday

* I one day just decided I’d be an ice hockey player

* I wanted to play but I couldn’t skate.

* I enjoyed music quite a lot so I decided to join a band.

* After one of the gigs, I had a handful of CD’s and I asked the DJ if I could play some music.

* People started dancing and the DJ asked if I’d like to come next Saturday.

* I’d never stepped in a DJ booth I just didn’t like the music he was playing.

* I realised I didn’t subscribe to one movement.

* It was all these musical influences that made me who I am today because I never shied away from exploring.

* In the summer I did everything from a drivers maid for coke cola to working a building site.

* I’m quite glad I didn’t know what I wanted to do because I enjoyed exploring.

* I didn’t have pushy parents who said: “whatever you want to do, do it.”

* You can achieve your dream very quickly.

* You don’t have to go far on the internet to find all these inspirational quotes.

* When you make your dream happen, you have to have another dream.

* If you keep being intriguing about everything, your dream changes and keeps going.

* It’s when you’re not fixed on one thing and don’t follow philosophy it’s much more fun.

* What get’s us interested isn’ what’s the best, it’s what’s surprising.

* I wanted to see the world.

* I’d worked a little with Coral Draw whilst in the band.

* Too much of one thing is never going to last for too long.

* In design, I was lucky because I started from the very bottom of the pile.

* I was ready to learn everything.

* I got a gig with a jazz venue and created posters for £50 a pop.

* When I decided to go freelance, I had absolutely no idea about it.

* I had a couple of clients, I was sure I’d survive and…. I failed.

* I had no philosophy of where I wanted to go.