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Welcome to Big Fish with me, Spencer Matthews.

Each week I speak to inspirational people about how they reach the top of their game and their mindset for success.

Where would you say you got your drive from?

I think the drive came from mum. Growing up and watched a juggle three jobs.

Our SRI nurse at night and then she'd go to this little restaurant the other day as a cook

and then she'd finished the cooking from sort of seven to three

and then start cleaning from

five to seven and be back home making her tea. So I think mum was a big inspiration in terms of

getting that work ethic in place and sort of watching mum, even on Christmas Day, still not been

there Christmas Day morning because she's finishing a night shift and then finishes the night shift

and comes in and sticks the fucking turkey in a in a tiny

kitchen so you respect that and the first ambition you know when I got successful

was to then change mum's life and give her her own house, her own garden, her own garage, her own car.

I think we went through multiple driving tests. I think she failed and must have been a dozen times and we

finally got her over the line and then got her a nice car so she could drive to work and not stand there,

you know, with her bus pass.

Yeah, it's a big thing for a son to look after their mum and not having a great relationship

with dad, then, you know, focused all that attention on looking after her, I think,

because she went to Helen back looking after us and keeping us four together.

And then the sad thing is that I have the

flip side of sort of my success. The opposite to that is my brother's sort of addiction, you know,

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