E148 - Ben Towers, leading young entrepreneur: Age is just a number
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ben Towers is co-founder of Happl, a platform with a mission to connect employees and tackle ill-mental health. Ben started his first company at the age of 11, after finishing school for the day he would spend the evening working to improve his business. In this episode Ben shares an insight to his mindset at such a young age and how parents can encourage and affirm their children’s goals. His parents set open challenges and gave him the freedom to explore, whilst setting clear boundaries.
Ben shares why it is important to have a diverse education and children should be open to multiple ways of learning. They discuss the power of networking and making connections, improving your mindset and mental health…
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey and this is High Performance, our conversation for you every |
| 0:05.6 | week that reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, your story. We just |
| 0:11.3 | help you unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into |
| 0:15.9 | your life lessons. So right now, allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to speak to a really |
| 0:22.3 | fascinating young man. Welcome to a special bonus episode in partnership with Dell Technologies |
| 0:28.3 | and Microsoft. Now, before we get going, Dell have a UK-based podcast conference called |
| 0:33.7 | Podference. It's absolutely brilliant. A place to share advice and inspiration to support |
| 0:38.5 | all kinds of small businesses. Dell is a trusted advisor for small businesses. They offer |
| 0:42.9 | dedicated technology and solutions so you can find the right technology and advice to help |
| 0:47.7 | your business grow and succeed. And today, we're going to talk about entrepreneurship. |
| 0:52.5 | We're going to talk about thinking differently, allows you to do things differently. We're |
| 0:56.3 | going to talk about refusing to take no front answer and instead asking why. We're about |
| 1:02.3 | to speak to a young man who was described by the Sunday Times as one of the most influential |
| 1:07.2 | teenagers on the planet when he was just 16. He started his first business, aged 11. |
| 1:13.4 | He's a young guy that believes in doing things differently. He loves creating disruptive |
| 1:18.2 | startups. He's now only in his early 20s, but he's now the co-founder of a business called |
| 1:27.1 | HAPPLE. And I'm personally so excited to share this podcast with him. I think that he's |
| 1:30.0 | the perfect guest, actually, not just because of the things he's done as a young businessman, |
| 1:35.0 | but also I think it's all about the age of which he decided to do these things and the fact |
| 1:39.4 | that he was brave enough and ambitious enough at school to still be an entrepreneur. I think |
| 1:45.9 | it takes an incredible amount of self-belief. This is what's coming your way on today's |
| 1:51.2 | episode of The High Performance Podcast. |
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