Professor Green - How To Overcome Life’s Hardest Challenges & Find A Purpose

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

We all know Professor Green aka Stephen Manderson for his multiple chart topping songs throughout the years but there is so much behind each and every track inspired by his rocky upbringing, to say he has faced and overcome adversity to reach where he is would be a real understatement. He was born and raised in Hackney, growing up on one of the most notoriously troubled council estates at the time. He has won a number of personal battles ranging from health trauma and poverty to parental abandonment. Stephen's mother gave birth to him at 16 years old and left him and the home when he was just one year old. His father was absent for the vast majority of the time, leaving Stephen troubled and alienated. He was raised by his nan Pat. Stephen was stabbed in the neck in a near fatal attack with a broken glass bottle in a Shoreditch nightclub when he was 26. Convinced that he would die, he fled the club in shock and phoned both his mother and grandmother to say 'goodbye'. In 2008, Stephen tragically lost his father to suicide by hanging. He opened up on this is in his pivotal documentary 'Suicide and Me' released in 2015 for BBC III. They had had a difficult relationship prior and only occasional contact - he had not seen him face to face for six years before to having to identify his body, and his last words to his father had followed a bitter argument. In 2017, Stephen had a major health crisis and ended up with “a paralysed stomach”, totally unable to digest food. He managed to heal himself in large part through his own research and combinations of gut/balancing products. Since identifying a gap in the market for similar solutions through his own health battle, he has converted that newfound knowledge and research into co-founding liquid supplement company Aguulp, its product range receiving rave reviews so far. Stephen is incredibly level-headed and self aware despite treading such a rocky path. His constant battle with mental health both personally and within the family has created a mindset that is very unique and this conversation is one that I think everyone needs to hear. Stephen: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/professorgreen Twitter - https://twitter.com/professorgreen Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	To say that Professor Green has faced and overcome adversity in his life is such a gross understatement.
0:04.6	He's self-aware, he's honest, he's critical of himself where he feels he needs to be.
0:12.0	I've got to do some work on myself here. Things need to change.
0:15.0	So as you push things down, they come at you sideways. I can't keep projecting my
0:18.9	problems onto other people and blaming them. You know what if I ever see you again on the knock you out and
0:26.3	people are like wow do you wish you could go back in time and change what your last
0:29.6	words to him were? No of no, of course not.
0:33.0	Because that angle was just.
0:34.0	It was that constant.
0:35.0	It was him being in and out my life.
0:37.0	Him being such a kind, generous, gorgeous man,
0:41.0	but being such a shit farther. I felt like he was threatening me and I felt like I was right to stand my ground.
0:47.7	I didn't expect that five minutes after that he'd walk up behind me and put a broken bottle in my neck.
0:51.6	I got my phone, I called my name and I just
0:53.8	apologize for all the work she had put into me that this was how it was going to end. To say that Professor Green, aka Stephen Manderson has faced and overcome adversity in his life is such a gross understatement.
1:13.7	There's moments in this podcast today where you realize how unfortunate his life has been at
1:20.6	certain moments and how much of a seemingly unfair start he had, that it almost
1:27.3	doesn't seem like it can be true.
1:29.8	And we know Professor Green, we know his music, I grew up listening to Professor Green's music we know his
1:33.6	documentaries more recently and how inspiring and vulnerable those
1:37.9	documentaries have been and most of us will know about the tragedy that met him
1:41.6	in his early years when his dad decided to commit suicide.
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