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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...

Ola Animashawun - A Truly Self-Made Man

May 05, 2020 • S.B. Cole • Episode 9

Ola Animashawun is Creative Director of playwrighting consultancy ‘Euphoric Ink’, founder of the Royal Court Theatre’s famous Young Writers Programme and has been described as ‘the Royal Court Theatre’s Secret weapon’. In ‘The Beginning’ section, Ola tells us about his dreams of being a footballer, not knowing what he wanted to do for a living and the play that changed his life. In ‘The Battlefield of the Mind’, Ola tells us about growing up in foster care and his determination to change a world that does not want to change. In ‘The Mountaintop’, Ola tells us about his travels around the world and why he feels like he has already won the lottery! In ‘The Things I Wish I’d Known’, Ola tells us about the determination that was born out of his chaotic childhood and the best advice he has ever been given!