Embracing Change To Achieve Life On Your Own Terms - with Mark Stokes

On a Mission Podcast

Ellie McKay

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

With over 30 years experience as a property developer, mentor, author and business investor, there is no denying this weeks guest Mark Stokes is a man on a mission. Mark’s strong passion for creating shared value and inspiring others to achieve success made for a phenomenal interview.

In this episode, Mark joins me to talk about how keeping an open mind can lead to more opportunities, how he transitioned from corporate life to a more fruitful way of living on his own terms, and how by connecting the power of the mind to the power of the body, we can achieve far more than we may expect.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Opportunity comes from keeping an open mind. Those who never say no find that their paths are diverted in far more interesting ways when it comes to life.
The road to happiness and fulfilment often comes at the cost of making hard choices, but the legacies we achieve from doing so are life-changing.
By connecting the power of the body to the power of the mind, we can often reach higher, push harder, and achieve far more in life and in business than we would expect of ourselves.
We often take our knowledge base for granted, when in reality, if we look back across our experience so far, the skill sets and talents we have quietly acquired have empowered us in all kinds of incredible ways.

BEST MOMENTS

'Change has been my constant for the last thirty years’

'I was blessed with a huge amount of opportunity, and I guess that's because I learned never to say "no"'

'What is it that pushes you towards that next level?'

'You need to recognise the huge amount of skills that you've curated and nurtured over the years'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission

Mark Stokes Website - https://www.equagroup.co.uk/

Mark Stokes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-stokes/?originalSubdomain=uk

Mark Stokes Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/markstokes.stokes

Mark Stokes Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markstokes.stokes/?hl=en

ABOUT THE HOST

The On A Mission Podcast brings you Ellie Mckay's no holds barred chats with some of the UK's top business leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, top thought leaders, influencers and mindset experts.

On a Mission is for unconventional thinkers that want to challenge the status quo. For all those people on a mission to live their best lives and take control of their own destiny.

Ellie is a straight-talking, successful property entrepreneur who passionately believes that everyone has the power within themselves to transform their lives no matter what their situation.

As a mumpreneur with 3 young children and multiple businesses, Ellie likes to keep it real with her no-bs insights and share the things that have helped her achieve the level of success she has enjoyed to date.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onamissonpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EllieMckay

Clubhouse: @ellie83

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Now, for anyone who doesn't know Mark, he's an author, he's a mentor, he's a business
0:04.8	investor, he's a property developer with over 25 years experience, working on 100 million
0:11.2	plus worth of London new build development, large scale commercial to residential, and
0:16.6	he's nationally recognised as one of the top SAS advisors, and I think the most impressive
0:21.6	part of that rather extensive CV is he's also a father of four, so welcome to the show
0:26.4	work.
0:27.4	Oh, thank you very much, Ellie, really appreciate, and well, you're on such a great mission,
0:32.5	so really great to be connected and looking forward to this.
0:35.7	Oh, I'm really excited. I feel like I've got a proper growing up on the show today.
0:39.9	Well, try not to let you down.
0:43.2	Okay, so let's take it back a few notches, then Mark, because prior to the work that
0:49.5	you're doing now, which we're going to go a bit deeper into, you actually had to 20
0:53.5	plus years as a non-exec director, troubleshooter at a very high level.
0:59.6	Can you tell the listeners a little bit about your own backstory?
1:03.0	Yeah, yes, I was born and bred in Lincolnshire and climbed the wall at 18 to go to university
1:09.4	and was never let back in, really.
1:11.8	I went and did a degree in construction for those of you with dim and distant memories,
1:17.4	a polytechnic back in those days back in 1988.
1:22.2	And I was fortunate to come out having done my degree into a world that was changing.
1:28.0	And I think embracing change, and I guess change has been my constant for the last 30 years.
1:35.2	And the particular change back in 1992, for me, was the world was changing from a telecom
1:41.2	perspective.
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