Finding Meaning in Life After 15 Years Battling Cancer | David Smith MBE

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What happens when everything you’ve built your identity around—success, strength, achievement—is suddenly stripped away?

In this deeply moving episode of The Business Growth Podcast, David Smith MBE shares his remarkable story of resilience, recovery, and rediscovery after 15 years of living with cancer.

David isn’t just a survivor. He’s a seven-time surgery veteran, a Paralympic gold medallist, and a man who’s redefined what it means to win at life.

From the outside, David’s story is about sport and survival.

But listen closer, and it’s about something even greater—how to find meaning, gratitude, and connection when life tests you to your core.

“Cancer stripped away my identity. It forced me to ask: Who am I when there’s nothing left to prove?”

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

- The truth about resilience – and why it’s not about strength, but surrender.

- How to live as a human being, not a human doing.

- The role of emotional intelligence in healing, leadership, and growth.

- Why awareness is the real gift—and how to use it to make better choices.

- The four legs of life – a simple model David uses to stay grounded.

- How to build a life that matters even when the plan falls apart.

David opens up about life in and out of hospital wards, the voices that kept him going, and the unexpected teachers he met along the way—including world-class coaches, Buddhist monks, and his own inner critic.

“I realised I’d spent my life trying to be somebody, when all I needed was to be me.”

For entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone facing uncertainty—this episode isn’t about illness.

It’s about living. About slowing down long enough to hear your own truth.

And about discovering that growth doesn’t always come from winning—it often comes from letting go.

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Episode #137 Mr Motivator's Blueprint for a Overcoming Adversity & Living a Fulfilling Life

What do you do when life knocks you down, again and again, but you refuse to stay there?

In this powerful episode of the ActionCOACH Business Growth Podcast, Derrick Errol Evans MBE, better known as Mr Motivator, shares a story that goes far beyond Lycra and lunges.

From sleeping in homeless shelters to becoming one of Britain’s most loved TV icons, Mr Motivator reveals what it really takes to bounce back, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually too.

At 72, he’s still full of energy, joy, and purpose. But his message today is about far more than fitness. It’s about finding peace, creating space, and making time for yourself and for others.

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What does it take to build a travel business from nothing?

How Two Backpackers Built A Travel Empire

In this powerful episode of The Business Growth Podcast, recorded live at Sky Studios, Alastair Donnelly and Simon King, co-founders of Inside Travel Group, share how they went from teaching English in Japan to leading an £80 million global company employing nearly 300 people and sending tens of thousands of travellers around the world each year.

This isn’t a story of overnight success. It’s a story of grit, friendship, purpose, and doing whatever it takes to survive.

Alistair and Simon open up about:

- The moment a life-changing trip inspired their business idea

- Building a company from a spare bedroom with no experience or money

- Surviving financial crashes, inefficiencies, and a pandemic that almost wiped them out

- Finding the right systems, advisors, and people to create sustainable growth

- How purpose and profit can coexist when you truly care about people

“Business is about people. You have to care about them - your customers, your team, your suppliers, your community. If you really care about people, success will follow.”

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