Chris Budd

But I was the envy.

Actually, I wasn't the envy of the estate.

They all took the piss out of me because of it, because we were well-to-do, because we had a solar stream.

That seemed to be the icon of doing well and showing off.

Anyway, my dad's self-worth came from external sources.

And then when things didn't go so well, he went bankrupt and lost everything, lost the house, lost the car, literally everything.

And he was never the same.

It completely destroyed him because his self-worth was coming from external sources.

There was no more self-worth.

So that was a massive lesson to me.

I only kind of really got the whole self-worth bit much, much later.

I was reading a, actually it was a Buddhist book on the beer and, sorry, the beach and beer.

I remember the moment so well.

Just put the book down and went, oh my God, I've just realized what happened to my dad.

It was all about self-worth.

But at the time it was absolutely horrid.

So I, the phrase that I use is that I wouldn't allow myself to be a victim of life.

as I felt my dad had been.

It was partly his fault, partly recession, partly external sources, but the impact it had on him was life changing.

And so I've always been there for quite a low risk person and I seek happiness rather than money.