When I couldn't even afford a sandwich

Hey man

I recently hit my first $10k month…

And I got hit with a wave of depression shortly after.

A long-forgotten memory resurfaced out of absolutely nowhere.

I’m 16 years old again standing with a friend at Tesco (supermarket) staring at the sandwich section…

He’s grabbing his assortment of junk food for lunch when he notices that I’m paused there just shuffling around awkwardly waiting for him.

I didn’t want him to ask questions.

But he did.

“Aren’t you getting anything, Ollie?” he said.

“Oh no, I’m good. I’m not hungry” I said.

He knew this was a lie.

He was my classmate in college where I was doing a Sports Science course.

He knew I hadn’t eaten all day because he hadn’t either.

But I didn’t want him to know the truth.

I didn’t want anyone to know the truth.

“Oh, okay mate….do you want me to get you anything?” he knew something was wrong.

I held back a tear.

“No, mate honestly I’m good”

I wasn’t good.

I was hungry and I wanted to devour a chicken and bacon sandwich.

But the truth was, 5 minutes earlier I had looked in my pockets…

I only had 0.50 pence.

A sandwich was £2.50.

At that moment I realised how poor my family was.

I couldn’t even afford a sandwich from Tesco.

How is that possible? Where were my mum and dad?

My mum had died 2 years before from cancer.

My dad spiralled into a deep depression immediately after.

He started taking drugs.

He quit his job, became addicted to Mephedrone and alcohol, spent all of our money on a drug binge in Ibiza — and turned my house into a drug party den.

Weird people would walk into my room at 3 am waking me up.

This happened multiple times a week.

Some days I arrived at college so tired I fell asleep in class repeatedly. See below.

Now you might ask “Why didn’t you just ask your friend for money?”

I felt so ashamed of myself for my life that I didn’t want ANYONE to know there was something wrong.

But this isn’t where the story ends…

Because at that moment, I made the decision that by any means necessary, I was never going to be that broke again.

Fast forward to today…

I made 10k month last month through my YouTube channel doing what I love.

Your trauma can either become the prison you live in …

Or it can be the fuel that lights the fire in you.

I’m lucky that the kid back then chose the latter.

Now I help men free themselves from the trauma that holds them back while building a good income with a business they love.

If that sounds like you, I offer a complimentary call where we bust the fears/self-doubt that keeps you stuck whilst we map out the next 3 - 6 months of your life.

There’s no sales pitch.

If you want to work with me after the call, it’s your decision.

But for these 45 minutes, we’re going deep. So show up with a journal and a pen. I’m going to ask some confronting questions.

Click this link which will take you to my calendar. Find a time, answer the follow-up questions and I’ll see you on the call.

Big love, mate.

Oliver