Within a matter of hours, I had three scans.

The prognosis wasn't good.

I had a brain hemorrhage.

I was rushed into surgery.

They said, you know, you could die here, a heart attack, a stroke,

or you could be seriously handicapped the rest of your life.

And that was the big wake-up call for me at Spring Harvest,

and in that operating theater.

Still trying to understand as to what God wants me

to continue to do in this exciting rollercoaster of a life and realise that life is delicate

and life is fragile and we need to be aware of that because one day things look very

different for us all and that's eternity.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. So good to be back for another fantastic week of encouragement as we hear someone's story. Listen, if you're new to us, I don't know about

you, but we just get relentlessly bombarded, don't we, in the media with 24-7 stuff that

makes you depressed and anxious and cynical and negative.

So what you get with inspired is meeting different mates and contacts at mine from across

so many different spheres of life that are seeing beautiful stuff happen in and through them,

through their God-given skill sets. And I've got no doubt this week you're going to be beautifully

encouraged and we'll have a good laugh in the mix because we got with us the wonderful, the legendary Mark Mitchell. Welcome Mark. Hey, good morning, Simon. Good afternoon. Good evening, Simon. Whatever time you're listening. Well, so folks, I have preached up in the Wirral at Mark's church. Loads of people are telling me about him. In fact, I got a message this morning from our mutual friend, Mark, Richard Marion, saying they're in our village alone. He said there are 10 cars that you have sourced for people. So your imprint, your impact is throughout the country. You run Mitchell Group, such a Chester Best dealership. You've got three different companies you recommend. There's so much going on. Listen, I don't want to say much more than that, really, because I want to crack on with your story. So let's just go for it. I don't know much about your

childhood. I know that straight away early doors, your entrepreneurial gift was evident. But give us a

family background context. Go for it. Yeah, well, I'm a Wirral guy. Wurles was part in Cheshire,

now Merseyside, and brought up in a very happy family, eldest of three brothers, mother and father in professional work themselves.

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