Backpacking Around The World Alone For 6 Months In 2004
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’d just got knocked back from Oxford University and felt the whole thing was unfair. The main area I’d fallen down on was the Songs of Experience section of William Blake’s poetry. He was a master poet and I’d learnt extensively about his Songs of Innocence during the school term. Bishopshalt School where I was […]
Lessons Learnt From A Business Partnership That Cost Me £50k
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey guys, So at this time of writing, I owe Stripe 6k, have 4k in taxes to pay and am a former business partner for Pearl Lemon Leads who have 5k per/month in billings from clients he has taken. Assuming he keeps them for 3 months, that’s 15k + 10k in taxes. Furthermore, I’ve spent […]
The Therapist Who Helped Me Find My Sanity, Stability
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, So you’ve heard her name come up several times. Daniela! And I don’t think I’ve actually shared a photo of us together. (Just went through Google photos and found three recent ones. F*ck it I’ll share all of them) Yup, I know. I’m a handsome bugger, right? Lol. As you may remember (or […]
Preparing for a 42 mile ultramarathon
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, Today I want to throwback to running my first ultramarathon. I managed to dig out my old emails with the Might Contain Nuts family (unfortunately their site is now defunct) It was August 2012, and I’d grown somewhat bored with running marathons, so I was looking for a new challenge. Running an ultramarathon […]
Building a 7-Figure Mac App Empire Step By Step – A Strategy Of Mine
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, I wanted to get a little more practical in today’s letter and talk through my plan (for wherever it’ll end up) with building apps and a path to incredible returns. It could all fail of course, but this is what I’m doing at the moment. I’ve been a Macbook user for around a […]
From Recording My First Rap In School To Battle Rapping At A Live Set
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s 11.35 am here in Poppins Cafe near my folk’s place in West Drayton. Here’s me: I’m being mega unproductive with good reason lol I’m listening to one of my old albums on Soundcloud: Road Rap Season 1: It’s crazy to think it’s almost been a decade since I recorded this mix cd. I’m still […]
Preparing To Train With A Former Georgian Special Forces Sniper In The Mountains Of Tbilisi (Part 1)
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 […]
How I Bought 5 Properties In One Month
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hey guys, Today I want to walk you through my property journey. At the time of writing all the deals are still in progress, so technically I own zero until I exchange. Buying, getting the mortgage in principle, then the offer then exchanging will very rarely happen in 30 days. The whole process based upon […]
Being In A Physically Abusive Relationship; My Nightmare
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 […]
Building Deep Impakt Recordings: My First Business W/200+ Clients
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 […]
My Parents Arranged Marriage And My Relationships
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 […]
I had 22 jobs I think by the time I was 23. Let’s go through them and what they taught me
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 […]
How To Start A Crystal Business On Your Own
Reading Time: 5 minutes Crystals have been around for years, and they represent various things in nature. For instance, we often associate Quartz stone crystals with love and fertility. Some even associate Opal stone crystals with cleansing and the like. Some just like how they look because these stones are naturally elegant and beautiful. However, no matter what the […]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Your Fitness Business
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 […]
How To Build A F*cking Smart, Cheap and Agile Team On A Shoestring To Do Anything You Want
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 […]
How to Start a Bubble Tea Shop
Reading Time: 5 minutes The demand for bubble tea has grown rapidly over the years, and it is currently the most popular drink among kids and adults, and the bubble tea shop is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. It is also one of the businesses that Deepak Shukla established. For those who have never tried […]