The Beauty of Building Sites: Three Decades of Property Adventures
From growing up in building sites to twenty years of renovating my Balham flat, plus lessons from a Grade II listed building project that taught me when to walk away.
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From CEO to 6am Instructor: My Seven-Year BodyPump Journey
The real story of qualifying as a fitness instructor whilst scaling a tech startup, teaching through COVID, and retiring after seven years at the top of my game
"All the Gear, No Idea": Why Consistency Beats Perfection in Founder Fitness
The honest truth about staying fit whilst building companies: team sports, terrible nicknames, charity challenges, and why your dog might be your best fitness coach
Paying It Forward: Why I've Always Advised Startups (and Never Charged)
My journey through advisory work, from helping Eight & Four grow to teaching at UCL, and why the best business advice should always be actionable, empathetic, and freely given
Resilience Is a Muscle, Not an Organ: How Every Crisis Made Space for Something Better
The real story of building resilience through redundancy, recession, burnout and pandemic. Why bad often leads to good if you're ready for it
From Rage Quit to Silicon Roundabout: Building a Digital Agency in London's Tech Revolution
The story of how a frustrated developer's rage quit in 2003 led to building Codegent, acquiring Thin Martian, and riding the wave of London's first tech boom from Clapham to Old Street.