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The Mark Groves Podcast

#261: The Power of Passion with Ant Anstead

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.95K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Themes: Career, Purpose, Media, Divorce, Breakups, Parenting Summary:  This week I’m honoured to welcome the master mechanic himself, Ant Anstead, to the show. Ant and I met serendipitously a few years back when he took my Breakup Recovery Course, and I’ve been blessed to call him a friend ever since. Ant is the CEO and co-founder of Radford Motors and is responsible for overseeing the build process of every single bespoke, hand-made vehicle to meet exacting customer specifications. For many years, Ant built bespoke cars for elite clients and collectors all over the world and is best known for hosting car-centric television shows such as Celebrity IOU: Joyride, Radford Returns, For the Love of Cars and Wheeler Dealers, the number one most distributed show on The Discovery Channel.  Join us as we chat about Ant’s career journey, life (and divorce) in the public eye, parenthood, and more. Discover: How Ant transitioned from being a police officer to playing football to building cars How he turned his passion for cars into a career His journey into television How he deals with the media, clickbait and life in the public eye Ant’s perspective on parenting in the social media generation and his top advice for fathers 00:00 Intro  02:31 Ant’s police career 11:13 Flipping and building cars 16:05 Turning your passion into a career 21:19 Starring on a television show 27:27 Being in the public eye 31:34 Clickbait & the media 35:02 Getting hate for hosting Wheeler Dealers 43:01 Social media trolls 47:30 Divorce 54:50 Fatherhood 1:03:55 Upcoming works 1:06:48 Radford Racing School 1:12:29 Mark as a father-to-be Links: Website | ant-anstead.com + radford.co Instagram | @ant_anstead + @radfordmotors Sponsors: Cozy Earth | Use code GROVES for 40% off sitewide at cozyearth.com Create the Love Cards | Use code CTLCARDS15 for 15% off at createthelove.com/cards Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

It's interesting because then I was so young and I never really understood the principle of a vibe.

0:05.0

Now I fully understand it.

0:06.7

If you're in a room of a hundred strangers and somebody walks in the door, like Richard Branson walks in the door, he's got a quite cool vibe.

0:13.0

You'd go, whoa, yeah, he's got it.

0:14.5

But the same way, if somebody super negative walks in, you're like, oh, and that you should trust that.

0:22.6

Hi, my name is Mark Groves, and I'm obsessed with understanding human behavior and why we do what we do.

0:28.6

In this podcast, I interview the world's most brilliant minds and hearts where I get to explore

0:32.9

alongside you, every subject you can imagine relating to our human experience and how we relate.

0:37.9

It is my deepest intention that we all learn how to create the life and love that we've always dreamt of.

0:43.0

Now, before we get rolling, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any episodes.

0:47.2

And one ask that I have, and an amazing way that you can help support the podcast is by wherever you listen to it,

0:52.5

giving it a five-star review and a written

0:54.3

review. With all that said, let's dive in and transform our lives.

1:01.1

You know my first memory, though, like when I bought my first not great car, because it's your

1:07.1

first car, it needed a lot of things, which forced me because I didn't have money to have to learn how to do things. You have to fix it. Yeah, and so the way I did that was a Haynes Manual. Oh, my God. Is that what you did, too? Yeah, in the UK, Haynes is the Bible of car people. But it didn't really spread. I think America had an equivalent, maybe the Blue Book or

1:29.5

we had Haynes in Canada. Yeah, but Canada's, oh yeah, we're very British. Very British.

1:35.0

Yeah, we're still under the claw of the king now. Yeah, the king. Yeah, it was weird actually

1:39.1

listening to the National Anthem during the World Cup. Oh, yeah. I know, it's so, it's so weird, right? It's such a little nuance, but you think, oh, yeah. Except your team did a lot better. Than Canada? Canada. I know, you guys did great. For Canada. We were in it. We were in it. That's actually a big achievement. The society we live in now, you'll still get a medal. Yeah, exactly.

2:02.0

We got the participation. Not winning, but participation award. A participation award, yeah. It'll be

2:08.7

given to you by the slightly overweight coach whose six-year-old is also in the team.

2:14.2

That would be classic Canada too. And then we'll apologize for our performance in the World Cup

2:19.3

Yeah, but you don't need to

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