1 GCSE to £34 Million | Adam Stott

It's, like, literally the credit crunch.

And that, when we talk about resilience-

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I was three to four months in, I'd gone, been from being... 'Cause this is the other thing.

I've been on lots of personal development.

You talked about personal development.

I'd been on different trainings.

I'd got myself in a state of mind where I'm gonna be a millionaire, I'm gonna win.

I was totally revved up for it.

I had it in my head, is this is what I'm gonna do, this is what I'm gonna create.

Nothing's gonna stop me.

And then three to four months later, after being in my mum's spare bedroom, 'cause I'd sold my house to fund the business-

Wow

... uh, getting up every single day, not getting the clients I wanted, not getting the leads I wanted, um, watching my money that I had from my house sale drain away, um, feeling like a failure, saying to myself, like, "What's going wrong? What did I get wrong?" And, and just not seeing a way out of it.

I quickly started to lose a lot of confidence in my ability to, to turn it around.

I...

All of the confidence that I'd had, which had been building and building and building and building, it was just like tsh.

And I didn't know what to do.

And I pretty much felt like, well, you know, I, I, you know, I just got to the point where I felt like I'm not gonna make it, and I'm not gonna build a business, and I'm not as good as what I thought I was.

And this is where your, your self-doubt and your, your beliefs...

And I was in a very isolated environment, actually.

I didn't have anyone around me.

I didn't have any friends in business.

I was trying to figure out everything on my own.