Ep.2 The Power of Building Your Confidence with Steven Bartlett
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Steven Bartlett, the 28-year-old founder of social media marketing agency Social Chain. From a bedroom in Manchester, Steven dropped out of his university course and built what would become one of the world’s most influential social media companies at just 21 years old, before taking his company public at 27 with a market valuation of almost £200m. Steven’s debut book, 'Happy Sexy Millionaire, is a Sunday Times Bestseller and more recently Steven and I chatted on his own podcast about self-belief, mental health, running a business and pretty much everything in between. I’m excited to have him here today to continue that conversation.
Topics:
Quitting in order to succeed
Exiting a multi-million dollar business
A business case for doing the right thing
Building your confidence every day
The compounding effect of self-doubt
His future business plans
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| 0:34.6 | Well, well, well, here we are, episode two. I'm very excited. I feel like we're on a bit of a roll here. |
| 0:44.0 | Like, just be me. But I feel like we're off to a good start. And I'm very excited for you to listen to today's episode. |
| 0:50.3 | Stephen and I actually did a podcast a few months ago now, not even that long ago. And I loved our |
| 0:57.3 | kind of conversation and touching on a number of different things, not just within the business, |
| 1:02.1 | but also about, you know, general life confidence, how you put yourself places, what happens |
| 1:08.2 | when things go wrong. And Stephen thinks a lot and talks a lot about developing |
| 1:14.4 | habits and setting yourself up for success. And I really enjoyed our conversations talking about |
| 1:21.0 | that. And also, you know, the reality of being a business owner, exiting a business, |
| 1:27.0 | believing in yourself in terms of work, |
| 1:29.4 | and how you also maintain those of your employees in terms of valuing rest in terms of |
| 1:35.3 | valuing self-care and mental health and all of these things. |
| 1:37.9 | So we've had a great chat and I'm very excited for you to listen to this episode. |
| 1:41.8 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:48.0 | So, excited for you to listen to this episode. I hope you enjoy it. Stephen, how are you today? I'm brilliant. I'm, yeah, always slightly chaotic but calm. |
| 1:54.6 | I'm usually chaotic but not calm. So nice balance here. So you can bring the calm, because I'll bring the chaos. But first things first, |
| 2:03.3 | but anyone who doesn't know your story, from business to kind of social to where you are now, |
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