Matt HayCox about Unapological Life, stay optimistic and help others
Entrepreneur and Podcaster Matt HayCox Has highlights and lows that everyone would test. He has built multi-million-pound companies, collected hundreds of millions finance To support British companies and had thousands of people. He also had to pick up the pieces more than once when companies collapsed and the kind of adversity that would avoid the most, he came directly to him.
But ask him what defines him, and he will not say the money or the setbacks. For HayCox, the most important itself is unapological. “I know that when I am not faithful to who I am – and I hate it. I am busy forcing people to attract masks, but I have never been. I am, for better or worse. The people who get it understand. And I would rather be polished than polished.”
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Choose optimism if it is the most difficult
That authenticity goes hand in hand with optimism, which HayCox does not describe as a personality characteristic, but as a deliberate choice.
“Some people confuse optimism in ignoring problems or pretending that everything is good in a state of delusion, but that is not at all.
For me it is a mentality and ensuring that you only check what you can control. If you go for something in life that fears the worst, it can become a self -fulfilling prophecy, but once you know that – you know that it also works the other way.
I am a strong supporter of taking action and ensuring that your next step is positive, led by a positive thought, no matter how small the first step is.
I think the momentum cannot be stopped as soon as you have the ball rolling in the right direction. “
Entrepreneur and investor HayCox, 44, admits that he has had what he calls ‘years out of hell’, when the walls came closer and the stress felt overwhelming. But each of those fights, he says, left him sharper and determined.
“Every fight I have endured has made me stronger, more ambitious and more focused on what is important.
I wouldn’t want difficult times in anyone, but I wouldn’t exchange mine either. They shaped me. “
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Why health now comes for business
Part of that optimism, he believes, comes by physically taking care of himself. HayCox is known to his followers to pay so much attention to his health as at his company.
“This is something that I have learned to love and prioritize more as I get older, but for me now it is always first body, then head, then circumstances. Fix your body, repair your mind, and then you have given yourself half a chance to repair what is happening around you.”
That philosophy appears in his daily routines – training, diet, discipline – and in the extreme challenges he takes. Earlier this year he climbed Mount Everest, an experience that he does not describe as a stunt but as training for resilience. He did it alongside Ant Middleton, the media personality and former Special Forces Soldier. The two connected for the first time via the HayCox podcast, and he credits the elite mindset of Middleton with sharpening his own approach to overcome challenges.
“I hate the comfort zone. That is where people stagnate and the ambition dies. The good things are always on the other side of the dragon. If you want the gold, you have to beat it! Everest was just another way to prove myself that I can take on difficult challenges, but health is very important part of my life.”
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Lessons of the rich and successful
Haycox not only draws lessons from his own life. For the past eight years he has organized a weekly company podcastrecorded with more than 700 conversations with celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, homemade millionaires, even members of the royal family.
“The details of their journeys are all different, but the pattern is always the same – nobody has had it easy.
And the people who succeed at the highest level are not those who avoid problems. They are those who remain optimistic and continue to move forward, whatever happens. Everyone at the top of their game must be comfortable with things that go wrong, and that is probably the most important difference that distinguishes them. It is a comfort to know that F — ING Up is inevitable for everyone, no matter how well you prepare yourself.
It is a matter of ensuring that it is used to learn and become stronger. “
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When success means helping others
That philosophy has had an impact than the business community. HayCox regularly hears from people who are concerned with his content – sometimes in moments of real despair.
“I have had messages from people who say something that I said or posted, helped them for a dark time or my story has been able to show a positive route, while they may not have seen it before.
It is humiliating when people say that you have been able to help, and it helps to put things in perspective. “
It is this human side of entrepreneurship that HayCox says he is driving him today. “I know what it’s like if the challenges feel unbearable. I know how close people can give up.
If my story or my voice can make someone feel less alone at that moment, or help him find the power to continue, then I have done something that matters. “
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Paternity and a new perspective
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Being father for the second time also gave him a new perspective. “It changes how you see the world. Of course I still want to win, I am still extremely ambitious, but I think more about what I pass on and the relationships I have with my family.
That will always be more important than any number in a bank account. “
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Wherever it is to happen
For HayCox it always comes real. “I have achieved huge victories and big losses. I have experienced storms that most people cannot imagine. But nothing has ever done me to stop me. Stress, negativity – they are really, but they don’t define me. I define me. And I will always choose to stay loyal to who I am, and to be optimistic about what the next is.”
It is difficult not to see him as the embodiment of that old saying: difficult times do not last, tough people do. And if his past is something to pass, the next chapter of HayCox is perhaps the most fascinating so far.
