Tommy Mallet: Reality TV Star on How ADHD Helped Him Become a Millionaire at Age 25
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Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tommy Mallet, former TOWIE star and founder of shoe brand Mallet, joins Rob for an open and honest chat. Despite humble beginnings and struggles with ADHD, Tommy built his company to £25 million in sales before walking away to start afresh. Tommy reflects on making and losing his first million, shares the pros and cons of starring on reality TV for his brand, and discusses how he stays grateful and keeps pushing despite setbacks.
Tommy Mallet reveals:
- How he came up with the concepts for his brand and product
- Why he's stepping away from his shoe brand Mallet after 10 years
- How he and his now wife Georgia Kousoulou coped after the loss of a child
- His feelings around his ADHD diagnosis
- His plans for the future
- The mistakes he made early on in business
- Why his next venture will hit £100 million revenue fast
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"I work super hard from the minute I wake up till I go to bed."
"It ain't until you actually get a loss of something you can't replace, like a kid, that you sit there and think, f****** hell, this other stuff's nothing."
"I'm scared of not reaching my full potential. That's my main thing."
"I'm bored of the maintaining part of it. The book's becoming shit."
"If someone else is doing it, why the f*** can't I do it?"
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| 0:00.0 | I've learned over the years not to take them too serious to just keep going keep pushing I work |
| 0:05.7 | super hard from the minute I wake up to our bed but also make good decisions. |
| 0:10.0 | Tommy what's it like making your first million? |
| 0:13.0 | Harder than a second. |
| 0:17.0 | How much harder? |
| 0:20.0 | How much harder? |
| 0:22.0 | Well, for me the confidence you get from making your first million and |
| 0:27.2 | also the the lessons that you learn along the way is the most important. |
| 0:32.0 | Holding on to the first million is also like lessons that you learn along the way is the most important. |
| 0:33.0 | Holding on to the first millions are also hard. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, yeah, they don't teach you that, do they? |
| 0:37.0 | No. |
| 0:38.0 | It's very, I lot of anxiety attached to it, and it makes you much more shrewder. |
| 0:42.0 | So going in the banker can, going from a million to |
| 0:46.4 | 900, painful. Yeah. It's a painful feeling. Do you think if someone had told |
| 0:51.5 | you though it's really hard to hold on to your million you might not have driven so hard to make your million is it good that sometimes you don't know what's ahead of you? |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah, listen you've got to take it all as comes. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.5 | Lessons everything's a lesson. But in terms of the money, the money comes |
| 1:06.0 | with the hard work and success you get out of things, yeah? You've got a drive for like the top tier of whatever you're doing and just let the money come with it if you focus just on the money it becomes a bit of a sticky situation |
| 1:19.1 | Because you get it's all driven by that as you got to have that passion inside your |
| 1:23.2 | do I mean? |
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