E90 - Steve Morgan CBE: How hard work can make dreams come true
The High Performance Podcast
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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Steve Morgan is a businessman and philanthropist. Steve was born in Liverpool and started his first construction company at the age of 21 with a loan of £5,000 from his father. He founded Redrow, one of the UK’s most successful house-builders.
A lifelong Liverpool FC fan he unsuccessfully tried to buy the club on several occasions before eventually buying Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2007, where he stayed until 2016.
He founded the Steve Morgan Foundation in 2001, to support charities that help children and families, people with physical or learning disabilities, the elderly, or those that are socially disadvantaged in Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales.He received a CBE in 2016. During the Coronavirus pandemic, Steve pledged £1 million a week to charities to help some of most vulnerable sectors of society.
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| 0:46.2 | can give you amazing lessons to help transform your life. |
| 0:48.9 | And you may not have heard of Steve Morgan, but trust me. |
| 0:52.0 | By the end of today's episode, there'll be things that he's done in his incredibly |
| 0:55.3 | successful life that will impact you. |
| 0:58.2 | He's ought to expect. |
| 1:00.4 | I used to dread the winter because you've only got eight hours of daylight in the winter |
| 1:04.2 | and thoughts of working in eight hours a day was just like what do you do with your rest |
| 1:08.9 | of your life? |
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