Ep.4 Doing Whatever It Takes To Succeed with Reece Wabara
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Reece Wabara, CEO of Manière De Voir - former professional footballer turned e-commerce powerhouse. West Midlands born Reece began his career playing for Manchester City in the Under 16s team and went on to play for the England U21 squad before a strategic pivot into the fashion industry.
MDV, the design-driven brand founded by Reece in 2013 has gone on to see incredible growth, listed in the most recent Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100, and with 187% year on year increase in net revenue, worn by stars from Raheem Sterling to Anthony Joshua. Reece is vocal online about his views on strategy and leadership, and I’m very excited to have him here today to delve deeper into what got him here.
Topics
Importance of brand identity
Creating affordable luxury
Reinvention
The definition of success
Reece's journey to starting MDV
Instagram vs reality
Reading to further yourself
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and thank you for tuning in to today's episode. Today I am joined by Rees-Webara and we |
| 0:06.8 | talk about everything from his school background to learning the ropes of business, to |
| 0:11.7 | building resilience and about everything in between. We talk about what you should be if |
| 0:16.0 | you want to be hired by Reese and what type of life you need to live to have a company his size. I think you're |
| 0:22.7 | really going to enjoy this episode, particularly if you're interested in being an entrepreneur |
| 0:26.3 | and particularly if you're interested in building a big company to be able to see what |
| 0:30.5 | it's really like. Enjoy. Welcome. Thank you. Nice to have you here. How are you today? I'm good. |
| 0:38.3 | How are you? |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, good, thanks. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm going to start with some quick fire questions. |
| 0:43.3 | Are you ready? |
| 0:44.3 | Go. |
| 0:45.3 | Reading or podcasts? |
| 0:46.3 | Reading. |
| 0:47.3 | Time blocking or winging it? |
| 0:48.3 | Airplane mode or notifications on? |
| 0:50.3 | Notifications on. |
| 0:51.3 | More or less than eight hours sleep? |
| 0:53.3 | Less. Office or working from home? |
| 0:55.0 | Office. |
| 0:56.0 | Early bird or night owl? |
| 0:57.0 | Both. |
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