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…
Episodes
24 episodes
We Are Taking a Break: Our ‘Path to Purpose’ Special – Bejay Mulenga , David Smart, Okezie Morro, Solomon Smith and Ola Animashawun
Hi everyone, I have some big news today, ‘How To Be a Success: Ordinary Men Living Extraordinary Lives’ is taking a break!I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone AROUND THE WORLD who has listened to our podc...
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Gbolahan Obisesan - Artistic Director of Brixton House
Gbolahan Obisesan is a prolific director, playwright and actor, who is also the Artistic Director and joint CEO of Brixton House (which was formerly Oval House Theatre). Gbolahan has previously directed work f...
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Bejay Mulenga - Excluded at 12… Award-winning Entrepreneur at 20!
Bejay Mulenga is an award-winning entrepreneur – at 20 years old he was the youngest person to receive Her Majesty the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2016. Bejay founded Supa Tuck at 14 years old, a franch...
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David Smart - Mentor Extraordinaire
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 O...
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Solomon Smith - Founder and CEO of Brixton Soup Kitchen
Solomon Smith is the founder of Brixton Soup Kitchen, an organisation that has received numerous accolades and been featured on BBC3’s Amazing Humans, Channel 4, BBC Radio 1xtra and the Evening Stand...
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46:21
The Love Special Episode: How Important is it to Choose the Right Person to Love?
Welcome to our Love Episode, this month we are going to do something a little bit different and look at how love has impacted the lives of some of the extraordinary men we have had on our podcast over the past year! 00:30 - <...
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A-Star - Hard-hitting Christian Grime Artist
A-Star real name Alidor Gasper is a successful Christian Grime artist, his first EP Revolutionary debuted at No.4 in both the Christian and Gospel Chart and the iTunes Hip Hop and Rap Chart. 2020 saw the relea...
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Episode 17
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Okezie Morro - Hollywood Actor and Storyteller
Okezie Morro, is a successful Black British actor who starred in the Netflix series The Mist, has featured in several Hollywood movies including World War Z and Red Tails and has played leading roles in...
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Episode 16
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43:50
Carl Beech - Freed From the Pressure to Succeed
Carl Beech is the president of Christian Vision for Men (CVM), CEO of The Edge and founder of both Edgefest and The Gathering festivals. He is also an author, radio host and podcaster.0:24: Carl tel...
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Episode 15
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1st Anniversary Special! - Our Best Bits - Seth Pinnock, Johnboy Smith, Amani Simpson and Ola Animashawun
In our 1st Anniversary Episode we're going to do something a little bit different. We are going to have a recap of some of our most popular and powerful episodes!The Beginning - Seth Pinnock - From Pain to Pu...
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Episode 14
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36:55
Oladipo Agboluaje - Award Winning Playwright
Oladipo Agboluaje is one of our best Black British Playwrights, an academic and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. Born in Hackney and educated in both Britain and Nigeria. He won the Alfred Fagon prize fo...
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Episode 13
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40:22
Mervin Cato - Fathers and Mentors
Mervin Cato is Head of Enfield’s Secondary Behaviour Support Service where he works with some of the most challenging young people in London, a large percentage of whom are young offenders. Mervin is also founder and co-lea...
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Episode 12
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39:05
Matt Bird - Relationships Are the True Currency of Business
Matt Bird is an international entrepreneur, speaker, author and broadcaster. He has spoken in 30 countries to more than a million people, has written 10 books. He is the founder of Rela...
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Episode 11
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31:22
Amani Simpson - Award-winning Social Entrepreneur and Filmmaker
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 'A...
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Episode 10
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44:21
Ola Animashawun - A Truly Self-Made Man
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 <...
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Episode 9
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30:20
Karen Allen - Preacher, Playwright, CEO of the Joe Morris Boxing Gym
Karen Allen is an author, preacher, public speaker, playwright, the CEO of the Joe Morris Boxing Gym and co-founder of the Joe Morris Community Empowerment Centre. She is also a passionate advocate of Young Black Men. In ‘The Beginnin...
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Episode 8
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37:15
James Aladiran - Walking in Miracles
James Aladiran, the founder of Prayer Storm, is an instrumental figure in the UK for catalysing the Church into deeper levels of intercession. Before starting Prayer Storm, James coordinated the Message Trust’s Prayer Strategy for 7 year...
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Episode 7
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34:18
Simon Edwards - A Prison Filled with Love
Simon Edwards: 10 years ago, whilst serving a life sentence in Dovegate prison Simon found God. 5 years ago, he walked out of prison with £46 in his pocket. Today, he is the CEO of Walk ministries, a ministry that houses ex-prisoners and...
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Episode 6
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31:27
Emmanuel Oyeleke - Christian Footballer
Emmanuel Oyeleke is a professional football player signed to Port Vale FC. He was born on Christmas Eve 1992, in Wandsworth to Nigerian parents his passions in life are football, God and family. In ‘The Beginning’ section, Emmanuel tells...
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Episode 5
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34:03
Paul Gask - The Unlikely Evangelist
Paul Gask is Christian Vision for Men’s (CVM) Regional Director for the North of England. Paul was once a police officer who dramatically fell from grace… Today, he travels across the country talking to men about God in order to h...
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Episode 4
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34:05
Seth Pinnock - From Pain to Pursuing Purpose
This month’s theme is From Pain to Pursuing Purpose. Seth Pinnock is founder of Midnight Oil Youth Summits, frontman of award-winning gospel group ‘A New Thing’ and Tearfund’s Head of African and Caribbean Engagement. In ‘The Begi...
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Episode 3
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34:16
Pastor Peter Nembhard: From Prison to Preaching
This month’s theme is Complete Transformation. Pastor Peter Nembhard founder of ARC: A Radical Church tells us about his journey from prison to preaching. In ‘The Beginning’ section, he speaks about growing up in London, boyhood d...
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Episode 2
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28:38
Johnboy Smith - Paralympic Athlete
This month’s theme is Resilience. Our guest is Johnboy Smith, Paralympic Athlete, UK No.1 and Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist in the Wheelchair Marathon. In ‘The Beginning’ section, he talks about growing up running around wit...
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Episode 1
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40:12
Welcome to How To Be a Success: Ordinary Men Living Extraordinary Lives...
Welcome to How To Be a Success: Ordinary Men Living Extraordinary Lives... This podcast explores the messy nuts and bolts behind peoples success. The failures that taught them painful but powerful lessons, the things that kep...
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