Simon Squibb

And I realized my wife is the best listener.

You know the whole thing, we've got one mouth and two ears, you know?

Like, I do actually, and I've been working on this consciously myself the last few years, is listening.

Like, listening to people.

Stopping in the street and hearing someone's dream, letting them completely finish it.

Understanding what people out there are talking about, politics-wise, and what's really going on.

Like, listening is such...

So my wife's advice, if she'd said anything, ironically, would be listen more.

She listens to everybody and everything.

I was once in a meeting with her, just to conclude.

I was once in a meeting with her, a very, very senior group of people in business.

And we were trying to do a big deal.

And I was pitching how brilliant my company was and how brilliant I was.

And my wife, who was my business partner at the time, was sitting there.

It was a two-hour meeting where I don't think I stopped talking for two hours the whole time.

And at the end of the meeting, I said it was a CNN meeting.

I was trying to win their work to do international marketing for them.

And at the end of the meeting, the head of CNN marketing globally said, Simon, great presentation.

Thanks very much.

We know that Helen is the brain of this operation because she's just sat there and listened the whole time.