Steven Bartlett on Escaping the Comparison Trap, Rewriting Your Story & Getting Rich on Your Own Terms (Fan Fav)

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🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This is a fan fav episode. In this episode, Steven Barlett, Founder of Social Chain and Catena Capital, opens up about his vision, the motivators, and surprising moments of what reaching success felt like for him that no one would expect. He discusses the importance of why he wrote his upcoming book, Happy Sexy Millionaire, and his hope for this book to serve as an intervention for his generation that has been raised on social media. Steven gets very real about discovering your narrative and focusing on the simplicity of consistency. Order Steven’s Book, “Happy Sexy Millionaire” https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Sexy-Millionaire-Unexpected-Fulfillment/dp/1529301491/ref Original air date: 3-23-21 SHOW NOTES: The Journey | Steven reveals his path from Botswana to successful entrepreneur [1:37] Insecurity | Steven explains how his insecurities have driven his success [5:32] Move Different | Steven explains the origin of his business moves [6:28] Belief | Steven debunks the cliche ideas about belief [7:23] Comparison Trap | How Steven let go of bitter when he freed himself from comparison [8:57] Self-Worth | Steven shares his thought about society’s intrinsic value lie of self worth [10:13] Self-Narrative | Steven shares his revelation to resist labels and not restrict his narrative [11:44] Narrative Defined | Steven defines what self narrative is for him [14:42] Stability/Chaos | Steven reveals why he believes chaos is stability [15:45] Finding Change | Steven shares the anti-climatic experience of his biggest wins. [18:24] Gratitude | Steven shares his story of discovering gratitude through contrast of 19 year olddreams [20:14] Radical Change | Steven explains radical change starts with the smallest step [26:11] Consistent | Steven explains why consistency leads to radical change [28:50] Future Identity | Steven reveals how he anchors his present decisions to his future self [32:30] Quitting | Steven explains that quitting is a skill and what the decision tree looks like [34:55] 5 Buckets | Steven shares 5 buckets to fill under 30 to optimize your future [40:00] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.6	Once upon a time, I thought intensity was the answer.
1:20.6	I thought, you know, big intense strides forwards was the answer to changing your life.
1:24.6	And as I've managed to achieve more things in my life,
1:27.8	it's become patently obvious that it's the tiny little seemingly insignificant decisions that I've
1:33.0	made that have compounded in my favour over the space of five or ten years and not any individual
1:39.1	decision. And so I would implore people to try and get the tiny, tiniest things in their life right and see that as a compounding tailwind.
1:52.5	Everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. I am here with Stephen Bartlett.
1:57.6	Stephen, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Tom. It's a real pleasure.
2:00.9	Dude, I'm excited for this one. So you are a crushingly successful entrepreneur at a ridiculously
2:06.3	young age. You built social chain from nothing to being valued at half a billion dollars,
2:12.0	I think. So pretty extraordinary. Extraordinary at any age, but at your age, it's really quite dizzying.
2:19.9	Given that context, I want to start with a quote from your new book, Happy Sexy Millionaire.
2:24.5	And this really jumped out of me.
2:25.9	I love this.
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