I started my working life as a Stagecoach bus mechanic. Four days on, four days off, three weeks' paid holiday a year and having to ask permission just to watch my kids in a school play.

I wanted more. More freedom, more control and more choice over how I spent my time and who I spent it with.

So I quit with a week's wages, no savings and a family relying on me. There was no safety net. I had to make it work.

The journey that followed was anything but easy.

Over the next two decades, I started numerous businesses. Some succeeded. Many failed. I've lost money, made bad decisions, trusted the wrong people and started again more times than I care to remember.

But I never went back.

Today, I'm an entrepreneur, investor, business strategist, author and international speaker, sharing the lessons I've learned from actually doing it.

The success taught me plenty. The failures taught me more!