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🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 157 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's wonderful that you call me a legend. |
0:04.4 | Especially a living. |
0:05.4 | Well, for anyone who doesn't know you, you are not just a legend in the martial arts world. |
0:10.4 | You're a legend in the whole business world, but you literally transformed the space. |
0:15.5 | You set up your first martial arts school at age like 1617. |
0:20.7 | You've now got 1, 218 franchises. You've got 67 dance schools. You became a |
0:29.1 | net worth millionaire at 18. You're a public speaker, you've got the biggest private property portfolio in the whole of Devon and the thing that you're probably best known for is the slightly not so small matter of being bodyguard, advisor, best friend, head of security to the one and only Michael Jackson saw a pretty impressive CV. |
0:55.0 | Yeah, it's a bit of a fairy tale when you say it like that isn't it? |
1:00.0 | It really is. |
1:01.0 | Does it sound weird if you're in it all back? |
1:05.2 | When I hear about now, now I'm 42 and I look back at it, it does. |
1:10.6 | But when you live in it, it was all very, very normal if that makes any sense at all. |
1:16.0 | Because I didn't know any different. |
1:19.0 | I had one real job as a lifeguard for £2.75 an hour to save £100 to open a business bank account and set my martial art schools. |
1:28.8 | But yeah, Michael and everything coming to my life at such a young age I was 18 and they were just my friend |
1:35.8 | so at the time I didn't really see it as as a normal everyone else around did. It was only when I went to get married and I threw up the stag-do list and realized, yeah, it's just going to be one person coming with me bowling because everyone else was too famous. |
1:54.0 | But that's just my life, you know, and it's some people always say to sometimes I name-dropping or whatever. |
2:01.0 | It's not, it's my life. I can't change you with my friends. |
2:04.3 | I didn't put them in my life. It happened by where I believe in the law of attraction |
2:09.3 | and all that type of stuff, you know, and it is what it is so so now when I look |
2:16.7 | back I get why people think it's fascinating a bit weird and a bit odd and |
2:20.9 | magical and how the heck did that happen and all the media |
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