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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...

David Smart - Mentor Extraordinaire

April 05, 2021 • S.B. Cole

David Smart, is a Mentor Extraordinaire, founder of Music Tech Training Centre and a freelance mentor to ex-offenders. Before starting the Music Tech Centre, David spent 7 years as Head of Music at Feltham Young Offenders Institute where he delivered music production courses and projects that helped rehabilitate and prepare young men for a positive future outside of prison.

0:00 The Beginning – Growing up in the Caribbean and London and the values it instilled.

9:37 How Did You Get That Job – Starting his own business and getting the job as Head of Music at Feltham.

20:09 Mathew 25:34-40

23:10 The Battlefield of the Mind – The greatest struggles David has experienced in life and the problem with compartmentalising things...

32:47 The Mountain Top – The greatest moments in David’s life. From love and business to facilitating the transformation of many, many young men at Feltham including Music Executive Niyah Smith.

44:34 The Things I Wish I’d Known – The advice he would give to young men who are struggling to find their way in the world.

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