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Happy Place

Steven Bartlett

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.615.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Fail fast. That’s the advice entrepreneur Steven Bartlett has for those who ultimately want to be successful, because the biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s procrastinating. In this chat with Fearne, Steven talks about how he’s seen first hand the damage being paralysed by decision making can do both in business and on a personal level.


They also chat about why you’re already enough, that no matter what outward markers of success you achieve your fundamental value won’t change. That, Steven says, should be liberating. It doesn’t mean you can’t be ambitious for your future, but it means you’ll choose to be ambitious about things you care about, not what you think will impress others.



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0:00.0

Hello and a massive welcome back to Happy Place with me, Fern Cosson.

0:05.6

Over the coming days and weeks I'm going to be sharing some really special chats with you.

0:11.0

They're the ones that happened live on stage at our gorgeous Happy Place festivals this summer.

0:17.0

Today it's Stephen Bartlett.

0:19.0

The most amazing, guiding signal of your life is genuinely how you feel,

0:24.0

but almost nobody listens to it.

0:26.0

And the reason we don't listen to it is because of worries, because feeling like you're not enough means that worry tends to take precedence over that voice.

0:33.0

And then we choose the certain misery of our current situation over the uncertainty will inevitably have to encounter as we go in search of our happier place.

0:42.0

Stephen founded Social Media Marketing Agency Social Chain from a bedroom in Manchester.

0:48.0

By the time he was just 21 years old, it was one of the world's most influential social media companies.

0:55.0

Now he's a speaker, investor, content creator, host of the diary of a CEO podcast, which I'm sure you've probably heard of, and author of Happy Sexy Millionaire.

1:06.0

Not only is he an incredibly accomplished entrepreneur, he's a brilliant philosophical thinker.

1:12.0

We talked about being paralysed by decision making and why there absolutely has to be failure on the way to success.

1:20.0

Honestly, there are huge, huge words of wisdom in this chat.

1:25.0

You look in the audience clapped throughout, which you'll hear, as well as the old plane going overhead, because we're on the old Heathrow flight path.

1:31.0

And just to set the scene, by the way, the entire tent was packed full of gorgeous faces.

1:37.0

And there were people spilling out onto the grass either side, sat on bean bags and dead chairs, because everyone was so eager to hear from Stephen.

1:46.0

He even spent literally hours, I think it was three or four hours, chatting to everybody at the Happy Place Festival, which we all hugely appreciated. He is just the kindest man.

1:58.0

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2:09.0

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2:16.0

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2:22.0

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