S2 E8: James Smith: How to quit your job, find your purpose and change your life
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
James Smith is a personal trainer and three-time bestselling author, who’s amassed a huge online audience of over 1 million people.
At 21, he found himself broke and knocking doors as a salesman with no real direction, so decided to become a personal trainer. He’s now built a phenomenal business, training thousands of people through his online academy and his straight-talking, no-nonsense approach sees him touring the world.
In this episode we talk about how finding your purpose fuels motivation to succeed, what advice he gives to people who hate their jobs and why happiness and pleasure are two separate things.
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| 0:00.0 | Look at him go. |
| 0:01.5 | He's a quality striker. |
| 0:02.8 | No, not him. |
| 0:03.7 | The electrician fixing those lights. |
| 0:05.5 | Wow. |
| 0:06.2 | Is he? |
| 0:06.9 | Yes, he uses QuickBooks to prepare for self-assessment. |
| 0:10.3 | This is truly game-changing. |
| 0:12.9 | Use QuickBooks year round to ensure your income tax return is shock-free. |
| 0:17.0 | That's how you business differently. |
| 0:18.9 | Into its QuickBooks. |
| 0:20.0 | M&S reckon brains are quite important, |
| 0:23.0 | so they took some advice from the British Nutrition Foundation |
| 0:26.0 | and made their new brain food range, |
| 0:28.6 | which makes it easier to get vitamins and minerals our noggins need. |
| 0:32.5 | So if you're a person with a brain, |
| 0:34.3 | you might want to give their new brain ball a try. |
| 0:37.2 | It's made of delicious dates and |
| 0:39.0 | berries, filled with almond butter and packed with nutrients like iron and zinc, which help to keep |
| 0:44.7 | your brain running smoothly. This is not just food. This is M&S brain food. This is a global |
| 0:53.6 | player original podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | The truth is that they're worried if they start their own endeavour, they'll fail. |
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