Grace Beverley

What is up?

I'm Grace Beverley and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast-shaped guidebook on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing, because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice.

What is up and welcome back to Working Hard.

Guys, I'm so excited for you to listen to this episode.

I want to start with something that I think a lot of people will relate to.

There's that feeling of knowing that there's something you want to build or create or do, but constantly finding reasons why now isn't the right time.

And the person I'm speaking to today has spent his entire career trying to prove that wrong.

Simon Squibb went from sleeping rough at 15, starting a small gardening business and step by step building business by business,

and eventually experiencing a life-changing business sale.

Since then, he's dedicated his life to funding strangers' dreams on the street and built a global movement around the idea that everyone deserves a shot.

If you're confused about your path or you've got an idea that you just can't shake, this episode is a proper step-by-step guide to building your dream.

We get into what freedom actually means, how to figure out what you actually want, how to start without quitting your whole life and what failure really teaches you.

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Simon Squibb, are you currently more working hard or hardly working?

Yeah, and I want to dive into that because your story is incredible.

Even just like going through the bullet points of where you've been and everything.

I want to go right back to the beginning because I feel like that context around your relationship with work is so important.

And you've spoken about being 15 and having the harrowing experience of watching your father have a heart attack and becoming homeless and unable to find a job.

Can you tell me a little bit about how that shaped your relationship with what I guess was then you just being thrust into this idea of work as an essential way of keeping you alive rather than maybe leaving school and being able to dawdle around a bit and work out what worked for you?