Colin Tobin
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'll go on.
I can give you other examples, but there are loads, right?
And remind me, I have a story about a partner and just on the subject of losses and dusting yourself off.
He won't mind me saying this either.
He'll get a kick out of it, right?
But when, so I was selling T-shirts in a kiosk in Blackpool after I lost my bar job.
I said, right, I got to do something here.
I had an advertising directory like what's on, but mine was called out and about cork.
I'd sell pages for 100 euros a month to the likes of Murphy's Rock, Apache Pizza, all these people.
Did well out of it.
I tidied myself over for a few months.
I had a graphic designer, a friend of mine, Paddy.
We went down into Blackpool Shopping Centre.
We sold t-shirts like for the marquee, Little Mix, all that kind of stuff.
We sold, funny story about a t-shirt loss actually as well, remind me.
We sold wedding invitations, memorial cards.
We worked right up until December that year and the manager of Blackpool informed us that when you're a kiosk in December in a shopping centre, your rent doubles and the rent was already high, couldn't afford it.
So we said, okay, we'll pull out and we'll come back in January, pulled out a little kiosk, put it on the back of a pickup truck.
Conor Kelleher actually gave us a lift that day.
Fair play to him.