And then she said to me, if you stop selling Halloween, the Lord will replace your lost business in other ways.

And I laughed at it. I thought she was a fruit cake. But then six months later, I'm a Christian.

So I thought, I'm not going to sell Halloween this year. You know, massive risk. We sell loads of it.

I throw away all the stock that I had left.

The best pit of the story was what the lady said to me,

September, October of 1991,

we had the biggest increase in turnover in one month and with every experience.

Now, people might say, oh, that's a coincidence.

Yeah, it could be a coincidence, but the trouble is, it keeps working.

Welcome, everybody, this is Simon Gilbo with Inspired.

Great to you back for another fantastic week of hearing from another mate of mine

in terms of what the Lord has done in and through him.

We are relentlessly bombarded by rubbish, negativity, bad news that just induces fear and anxiety and through him. We are relentlessly bombarded by rubbish negativity, bad news that just

induces fear and anxiety and cynicism. And I think why inspired is so beautiful and fruitful is

because it's so good to hear fantastic positive stories that just bring faith and challenge

and inspiration into our life. So this week, I've got

zero doubt you're going to be inspired because we've got with us all the way from Jersey right

now, Gary Grant. Welcome, Gary. Good morning. So good to have you. So Gary is the founder of

the entertainer, which has got, I don't know, is it coming up 200? How many stores have you got an hour?

About 165 stores, plus a very, very large expanding relationship with a number of partners of Matalan, Marks and Spencer's, Tesco's.

So by the end of this year, we'll be selling toys in over 1,200 locations in the UK.

Wonderful. Gary and I first cross paths about 20 years ago. It was actually a

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