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How To Be a Success: Ordinary Men Living Extraordinary Lives...

This podcast is about the extraordinary purpose that all of us have. It is about listening to people who are walking in their purpose and asking them, “How did you do that?” And a quick heads up this podcast is about finding out the messy nuts and bolts of success. The failures that taught them painful but powerful lessons, the things that kept them going and the truth, that success is a bit like the artwork for this podcast. It is full of perilous climbs, seemingly bottomless valleys, jumping for joy one day and feeling like you’re falling the next. Plateaus and progressions that are sometimes so slow we don’t even realize they are happening and mountain tops with glorious vistas we never knew we would reach. In short, success is about mess, mess we never gave up on believing we would overcome, mess we learnt from and mess we shut the door on so we could grow into our purpose. We will have a new guest every month and each week we will release a short section of their wisdom and truth. So, without any further ado, I hope you enjoy our podcast…

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How To Be a Success: Ordinary Men Living Extraordinary Lives...

Amani Simpson - Award-winning Social Entrepreneur and Filmmaker

June 02, 2020 • S.B. Cole • Episode 10

Amani Simpson is an award-winning social entrepreneur, filmmaker and youth activist. At the age of 21, he was stabbed 7 times after intervening in a robbery attempt. He has since produced a powerful Youtube short film 'AMANI' starring Hollywood actor Joivan Wade which has had over 2 and a half million views. In ‘The Beginning’ section, Amani tells us how traumatic experiences in primary school and his attempts to fit in spiralled into him becoming a complete terror at school. In ‘The Battlefield of the Mind’, Amani tells us how the ‘compound effect’ of his poor choices and defeatist mindset led to him being expelled from school and how he finally hit rock bottom and COMPLETELY turned his life around! In ‘The Mountain Top’, Amani reveals what the greatest moment of his life has been (and his answer is surprising to say the least…) In ‘The Things I Wish I’d Known’, Amani tells us about his mission in life and what he fed his mind to become the man he is today.