Welcome to the best version of you. I met Jay Roberts British forces veteran turned performance and lifestyle coach each week. I bring you an aspiring guests and message to help you level up your lives and unlock your true potential. Thanks for joining me today and including me in your journey to becoming the best version of you. Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls, welcome to another amazing episode of the best version of you. I'm your host is always a Jay Roberts and today. I'm extremely excited to bring to you a legend of a man the northern Warrior. Mr. Stephen green Steve. How you doing, man? I'm really good at yes. Thanks. Now guys brief introduction about Steve he was born in the late 70s in red car in the in the wonderful north of northeast of England. Should I say and he had a bit of a rough upbringing and left school in 1994. He basically went on to follow his mates working in construction, like many of the many of British Lads do and to lead sided he had enough and in 1998. He followed a few of his friends. Enjoying the Glorious core of the royal Engineers during this period he served in a number of places over broad high pressure environments some often kinetic and Iraq Afghanistan, uh, Saudi Arabia. Oh man, and basically it was a real eye-opener for him now during his 11 and a half years. He managed to reach the Dizzy Heights of Sergeant say he left as a senior of the core. And it was actually in 2006 that while still serving Steve brought his first investment property and that's something with me go into detail with today as it is. He says first goal on the beach having a portfolio of 1 million pounds worth of property within the first three years which ladies gentlemen he achieved. So that's the Army to focus fully on property and he now has more than 50 properties worth over 6 million pounds and that is his latest project. In 2013, he opens own construction company which now comprises of 12 members of staff and over 30 subcontractors. And most of these are used on daily basis turning over almost two million pounds of work. Yeah. It's quite amazing Steve's other passion is and this is what so really really tough to get on the show is his absolute huge desire to help other people and help them create a lifestyle that he has for him and his family. And he he delivers through his training courses. So without further Ado, I'd like to bring you back to mr. Steven green. So you can tell you a little bit more about his story and the amazing things as achieved so far. So Steve, let's start off with right where you are now and what it is you're doing at the moment. Yeah, so I'm split it spinning like a lot of players to be honest at the moment. We're looking to actually to get down a little bit. So currently got a like a large project on its 25,000 square foot. It consists of what it used to be. It used to be an all night clubs. I used to actually go there when I was first going outside of 18 19 year-old and it used to have the gymnasium on the top floor where I used to my dad's. It's okay. I actually used to go there as a kid and I used to I used to sit there and watch him sort trim with these met so that when I was about eight nine year old and then when I got a bit older probably about 19 year old or something like that before I went in the Army. I started trading there when you're done. So it's quite an iconic building in red cards right on the sea front. So I basically I bought that January this year. It took a year for it to go through just to the just because of the size of it. You have all sorts of issues with the titles with people objecting against the planning literally every hurdle we could have first we became up against so we've we've had the funding that solving past. We are converting it into 10 duplex Apartments, which basically just means they've got a stairs and it's kind of like mini houses upstairs and down we've got to retail units 13 offices we're going to move our own offices in there as well. And then we've got off a conference room downstairs. So it's going over 250 see a conference room where we'll be running our own training from and then we're going to have a gymnasium in there as well. So that'll be like a private gymnasium for the tenants of the businesses. And the and also the duplex Apartments - oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That's the big project right? We're about 50% through at the moment. I'm sort of winding down on my construction business and looking to sell out the moment. Hopefully in the next few weeks that that's going to go through and then I've got the the academy the property investment Academy which quite heavily focused on that now teach other people are I've built up this portfolio since 2006 and then my passion of mindset as well of showing people that They're already limitations of the ones the set of themselves. We with the wrong beliefs. So I've recently just Runner to day trade in event on that. That was last Monday Tuesday, very controversial. I'm sure we'll we'll talk about that today. Some people say that it's completely changed our lives and those that to be honest. It's laws that haven't come and seen it the very skeptical of the claims I make and I understand that I get that there. Pretty bold claim so so I do get it. Such pretty much where I am where I am. And I've seen a lot of your posts about your recent event. I was absolutely Amazed by some of the response and positive positive things that happened at your event and that, you know, see some of the photos of like just guys, how can you like not letting go cause you seem like, you know, you were helping them and not short period of time more than what they receive from doctors helped over like years years years of therapy to talk briefly. Like what? How did that come about? I've always had a real big passion about that the mindset side of things so I didn't particularly do it. Well at school. I've always drawn up at my school grades about fudge. I wasn't really interested. It was only really sort of PE that I had a passion for sort of the body fitness and things like that standard boy. Yeah, and then in the Army being a physical training instructor as well. I just loved it did not pti's course in thousand and two and I was just again I get a phone that I was really pulled towards the mindset the body coaching mentoring and that's the route. I wanted to go upon them going PT cost selection and sort of finishing my time up in the PT call that that was the funds and then 2006 it was I've got told I was going on a training course with Matt would out. I think you've met mark because we were just on about good either. So it's with the performance people and I didn't actually want a go on the training. I've seen it as a bit of a punishment. My bosses said no law because you're doing really well. We're going to put you on this three week training program and I was quite difficult and then Bronte one themselves since is anyone not want to be here and there was one idiot, but he's under and they kind of said to me look stay around 11 o'clock. If you don't want to be able to send you back to unit and I think it was probably after an hour. I was the most incredible. Gross person on the course and completely bought into it. And then from that point I just had this real first of personal growth for a learning developing my mindset my beliefs calls vision and that's where the real passions come from. I've seen what it's done for me being able to help other people. It's can just completely change people's lives as we seen at the event last week. Yeah. It's absolutely amazing. And obviously that time in the Army as well and I could relate to it a lot it you're not always surrounded by like-minded people and if you know, you're in the Army and they're not everyone's like that and it's still the same to this day in the same as any business really. So did you find yourself sort of like looking elsewhere to sort of network with like-minded people and also was it then just a case of a pure. Personal development Journey like upwards climbing all the time just basically trying to get better and better and better with the resources you had. Yeah. I think I've always been very driven and more of it than that that come from being a kid. I didn't really have a choice to be honest my mom and dad split up at quite an early age. I was brought up with my dad and my Grandma and Granddad and that's what I talk about in the book. I was brought up in a council ocean my grandparents. That's where I saw stood seventy percent of the time and then when God wasn't at work myself stepping regard for he was fanatically still is on his bike without training and things like that. So I was very much brought in and that world because my dad suffered mental health all of his like I used to I'd come home from school and I'd have to go on my bike and sometimes when he had the pressure he wouldn't speak for two or three weeks at a time. So it could be like really difficult like treading on eggshells around the house and things like that. That and my understanding of it as a sort of like a 10 11 year-old was a had to work hard on my bike in order for my dad to give me recognition and to feel happy and I felt that if I didn't try hard enough that I wouldn't get that. I kind of blamed myself for him not for being in these quiet mood. I didn't really understand what the were at that age sore. there was a mixture of him being quite strict that way of wanting the best Romney because he didn't start sort of his physical training until he was 26 and he got to a really good level and used to always sit think like well if I had a started it earlier as a kid where for they have got so I kind of got the backlash of that and yeah, it was it was quite tough in regards of Who is sort of you just get on with it? And I think that is pretty much in the north anywhere in the silent on that we from it's like you don't cry you get on with the lights what you make of it that type of thing. So that's where it's sort of sort of started for me. But my mom has well, she suffers from depression. So when people say things like well, what do you know about I've been surrounded with it all my life. It's My hometown now it would taste side has got the highest suicide rate in the whole of the UK. So it's it's a subject that's very close to my heart. My little cousin took his life a couple of years ago some of my best mates of tip and the lives and you'll know yourself in the military. It's quite a big thing for guys coming back off it operational to as PTSD and things like that. So I think I've not really been able to avoid it. It's always been around me everywhere on things and Beyond Yeah, and I'm very much in the same boat mate. It's one of the things I'm really starting to divulge towards and and hence the trend in the way up and going with a podcast in the guess. I've had on and mental health such a big subject. And the reason why I wanted to touch an eighth inning get guests on he would be, you know, really been involved in helping other people and know a lot about it is because it is such a taboo subject and like you say, you know for every person that's congrats Lakeshore says, Thank you so much. You've helped me. You know, you get two people a say. Well, what do you know about it? Because you've not got a doctor or you haven't done a psychology degree and stuff like that. But we all know that you know, what does knowledge always be experienced. No, it doesn't and I find some of the best people to talk to about mental health and overcoming adversity and stuff are our veterans. Yeah, because they've experienced this so many different forms. Yeah and like Self like me, you know, I have my best friend killed himself two years ago next week Sergeant Nathan. Well took his life here and in tidworth and week for that old Sparky did and it was just a horrible spout of it happening and only April this year. We lost Rob McEvoy down and bovington is just so yeah, like say constantly surrounded by it. So I think that we become pretty credible people. Especially those who pursue constant personal development and training and your mindset to be stronger all the time and more resilient and stuff like that. Like you say you didn't have a choice when you're younger. You just start your grow up fast. Yeah. No. So yeah, I think it's actually remarkable me and you know, I think some days that there's the old saying goes like some people should just pull up a sand bag and a talk to Scotty like because you'll be surprised what or how much they can help you? Yeah now definitely Stay with us and I think from for myself. I actually see the board early that somebody put on and it said let me think the court said I brought I think it was a broken man whose repaired himself is a very strong man. It was somewhat somewhat along along those lines and I looked at it and I reflected on myself because I have been in a very dark place like when I was in Iraq myself a talking about I'm quite open about it that for me. I did consider taking my life on that to just just couldn't take it and I look back now and it's I can see the whole lot. I was in and you just not thinking straight like people say things like if you take your like yourself this your kids and things like that, but I know when I've been in them periods of time, you're not thinking about that. That is the last thing that I need is your edits the for me. It was just I'm just done I've had enough. Okay, and I need a fellow it's that was the only sort of thing going through my head. You're not thinking about other people. Yeah, and like I can totally see what you're coming from because couple of episodes ago. I had an di Bishop on the show who was in the same dark place and he was like best friends with Sparky when he took his life and that's when he was like in a really dark place or he was in a bad place anyway, and then that happens and it you know, you share this remarkable story of us here on the show and you know for me I just love the love talking to people. With overcome that and getting people like yourself to share their story with other people out there because for me, I'm sure you understood exactly the same if you can just help one person. Yeah, get out of the hole there in just slightly that dark place, you know for me I'm winning and I'm sure it's the same for you. Yeah, it's very much was that I probably a little bit more. I've changed my sort of angle on it now, but I very much was lucky if I can help one person and now I've took it quite personal, but I know where I'm actually attached to it or anything like that, but I love my town. I'm proud of this town that work where I come from and I always remember it was probably about three four years ago. I remember when the steel Work clothes for the first time and it was a massive hit for this area because most people in the area and boy, but by the steelworks and I remember just having to Pedal up the seafront and just sort of thinking if I have to I'll single-handedly fuckin turn this town around by myself, and I remember having that conversation with myself. So now it's I've gone past that thing of wanting to sort of change one person's life. It's I want To do this on a fucking massive scale as people as I can possibly impact that that is the mission of and I know you're not there's always going to be people who don't want to change. I always think of the thing with Napoleon Hill where he says two things after be present one you have to want a change to you, but I've been looking for it and I do believe if either of them things are present and changes and going to happen. But for those that do want a change I know that I can help them and I'm very passionate about doing that as well. Yeah, and that comes down to people just being a ridiculously Close book and need to just need to become a little bit more open-minded of what's out there because you are living proof of the fact if you work hard, you know, you grind surround yourself with positive people and you know just positive mindset. You know, there's some great things out there that you can achieve doesn't necessary. I'd be property could be like, you know forever things. Yeah. So let's go back to the property side of things make that obviously like you bought your first investment house in 2006 while you still serving was that off the back of some like advice that you had or was it just something you always wanted to do? I think it was Probably a subconscious level. It probably came from my dad as well. The fact that he's always been quite smart with his money. I'm not going to say is ever set the world on fire, but he was up. He always put it into investment in share templates like that and he's done well for himself in that sort of respect. So I guess he sort of taught me that I used to sit and look if you work hard and listen that when you order your love your own out your own cast it up. That was solid drummed into me all the way through my childhood when I actually bought my first investment property. He tried to talk her out of it as the else with with many things. It was the older ones if no one wants it and you've got a second mortgage and you've got this around your neck, but for me because I've gone away onto it at sort of come back with this money. As you know, you cats on spend it when you're aware thought. Well, what what do I do with it? The time property was really cheap. And so ended up getting my first investment property there and I was surprised at how easy it was straight away. I got a tenant who's paying the rent direct debit and it was probably after three or four months. I just thought this is easier than I thought and I just literally just started building and just one after another after another. Hmm. So like now you've got 150. Yeah, I've got I've actually got more because I've got With the current project that we've got going on. I'll be asking another 27 so will be 77 in total like different units mixture of Summer single here to I've got 13 units which are here chemours. And the rest of them are houses retail commercial. So I'm quite a broad range. But yeah, we've the current one now we've got with what we've got complete got towards 60. Oh, well, that's a as formidable as brilliant and well, I mean obviously got a range of different types of properties are what type of property would you say was the best for you really? Whereas in terms of percentage of profit would you say HMO Returns the most about money? Yeah, I think for me because I mean I have literally made every mistake you can there I think it's what makes me a good property. Trainer I've seen properly trainers and a lot of Traders have been trimmed by somebody else and the back accelerate the results and of are played of Dunbar but for myself about like the 14th year now and I have literally made every mistake you can make and properly so a lot of my investments were bad. I remember having my portfolio and I used to think I used to add money into them. Um, so like let's say for example, the rent was 400 quid. My mortgage would be 450 Souls. Like I didn't know every mortgage and when I came out of the military in 2010, I came out to flip properties because that's what I've been doing buying and selling them as well. Hmm, and there wasn't much Choice when the sun came up. Everyone was fighting over it and I actually thought God this isn't working. I'm going to have to go back in and I needed to be excited or 30 grand a year to get bites. Of yeah. Hey me Cara mortgage with it's like up and remember over a six-month period I made by 8,000 pounds and I thought fucking Ellicott. I needed to be make it at least 15 and I remember having a port 3 tons worth of Petrol in the car that so I'll skin I was I I'd like I think at the time I had over a million pounds worth of property and about 300 Grand in equity and what I did I couldn't get my saying. No, don't be don't be cash but we are equally rich and cash poor cheese, which is what I was and I literally I put three couldn't in the fucking petrol tank and I bounced onto mortgages and it was like shit and I realized then that I need to do some of the cash flow and I ended up selling quite a few of the houses and I bought my first hitch and more and that that was clear with me then 27 Grand a year. Yeah. I would say that the only issue I out then was at used all my money deposits in the hitch and all cuz I up to because I had no experience. I put 50% down. It needed quite a lot of renovation Works to get it back up to scratch. So I think kind of blocks myself that weird. That's why I then sort of by accident. I ended up finding a joint venture partner from from a job application. So we just got talking about property and he started investing. So yeah, the hmos are the definitely the biggest biggest return in that respect. I love raw. I love commercial buildings. And the reason why is I think you get a better type of clientele. So if you get like buildings where you can split them commercial buildings when we did recently where we split it in three commercial units and the just let out all the time. There's a big big one from and you get a better clientele. It's a generally think of people that have wanted to sell their own business. They're in at least the mindset of Life happens through me rather than to me. Yeah, so the take responsibility for the results, they're not in that victim mentality and I tend to find that they're there a better type of clientele that we are very very little voice on any of the sort commercial buildings. Hmm. Yeah. I can only imagine enough see it like with the other properties where people are just renting some people might just be in survival mode almost just living paycheck to paycheck just to just to pay the rent and you know, each super noodles and stuff. Yeah, which can become a headache from your part as well and like Gigi went out to people who are in housing associations too far or do you refrain from no? No, we do that. So the hit chemours this is this is the polarity with it. You do bring in a good return off them. You've also got clients who people end up in relationship breakups and things aren't where they just after short-term Properties or levies dirt being out of work for quite a while. So you do tend to have a bit more of a higher turnover and a bit more of a challenging challenging Talent. I'm quite fortunate because we've got our own management company and I don't have anything to do with us. So we have involved stuff rocks. That's all tip. Care of all about yeah, that's great met you. I mean when you get to the level you have like you you have to Outsource so you can actually run your company, you know, like your company run you sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I used to do. There was a lot of sort of Hands-On. I actually remember it was on a Sunday afternoon and getting a phone call off a tenant and saying that the bath was leaked and I remember on a Sunday afternoon. It was red oxide and now I'm sort of fixing underneath of back. Thinking perfect setup set. I'm going quite literally from that point. I just started Outsourcing it or I just give all of the tenants. There's a number for the electrician. There's one for the plumber and I just authorised a certain amount like sort of anything up to 50 Quid. I give the Tradesmen just to go ahead to just do the work some of that. I give me a call. Yeah - I sometimes it is an investment though, isn't it? Because because your don't you Can't buy time. Yeah, and you're selling your time on here pretty much just just avoid paying your 50 weird here and there. Yeah, I thought that are multiple weekends when I'm grafted in my own house. Yeah, so I want to suddenly wake up in the morning or today. I'm with chippy. No, it's get someone else to the decking for you. Yeah, definitely I do that. No even at my own home. I actually remember when I went into one last time I grew and there were Talking about oven people used to hang pictures up on the wall, and I remember thinking fuck he'll like why did they just throw money away like that of getting people to do these Natural Things of taking doors off and it wasn't until I beat in that group a while that I realized that the very much 80/20 in the whole process that they'll look at it and go right if I'm fitting that door that I compare someone 12 15 pounds an hour for I could be making a hundred pound an hour. Bye. By doing this work on my business. Yeah, and it took me a while. I get my head around that would be honest, I think because watching my dad do all the things in his house here in in and all of its like that it didn't it didn't sit right with me getting people around to do jobs that I knew I could do that a little bit lazy, but I very much got used to that now would be stinking right I Outsource anything, but all like calm and I stay in that chunk of level. So I think that's really Important for the success in any business. Yeah. No, I wholeheartedly agree and how this conversation with a friend the other day and it's something I've touched on in a previous episode if episodes before like how much do you as an individual value your time? Not everybody needs to be so businessman and have a their own company like and stuff but she'd always value the time because you don't get it back. It's the most it is the most expensive currency in the world and I use like I used my wife for it. Example like saying to me like what you know, why do you need to spend 20 quid get someone to clean the car inside that you could do it yourself? I like well baby. If I do it myself I'm going to spend at least an hour and a half on it because I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I won't like have a mark anywhere and ask to be gleaming. Yeah, I mean because that's what we do is and but then like I value my time a lot more than 20 quid for 90 minutes, you know, and in that light exactly what you're saying like in that time an hour and a half I as an hour off. I could be like working on editing podcasts or working on Market in writing programs for clients, you know, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, they that's worth a lot more to me than 20 quid. Yeah. I'm or more people should think like that. They don't have to have a company in a business. They should not they should always work like ask themselves like how much we actually value my time. Yeah, definitely so going forward. With the property. What's the plan? I mean, you've got touching on 70 properties if you've got a goal in mind or I mean I suppose it's a bit of a silly question really because it's if you see if I said Yeah a hundred properties then you'll be like, oh what I do know, so it just is it take over the Northeast? No, I to be honest. I'm at a point now where I'm kind of winding down a bit after this project. I think for this project it was The fucked up I knew with the scale of it and you always care of all of doing it and then I knew it would clear and million Punk profit in one project and I think it was just the more of the thing of proving the point in my local area of what's possible. Like when people say are we from Red can people call it dead car? There's no opportunities nor cares for the government got care for as we've got the steel works and this very much this victim feel. Sorry for you. yourself kind of attitude and I just completely blow all of that out the water with everything that I have done and I am doing so I guess it was more of a didn't need to do it was more of just to prove a point to myself that I was capable of doing that. Yeah, prove to the area of look. It doesn't matter where you are and what your circumstances are. You can create your own opportunities. You can create your own fortune. Yeah, you can't and there's so many ways of doing out there. You just need to swallow your own Pride. I think stop following the people around you, you know, stop following negativity just sort of open your mind and just explore other avenues know reach out to people that are already doing it like yourself reach out to people get yourself on LinkedIn all that kind of good stuff. And there's this is the million and one ways of making money out there, you know and making a better life for yourself and your family. You just got to be willing to put in the Reps and yeah, definitely. So tell me how or tell the listeners how your book came around. I think it was a member just sort of I started writing the book. We started writing the book on mine set at first to be honest, and it was just some of that I wanted to do. I can't really remember where it came from. But I remember you're sort of saying right. I'm going to write your book and I have this ability to do this. I just say something and I commit to it and there's sort of no turning back. It's like there's no plan b or I don't ever give Myself the opportunity. I think we'll summer Phil. It's just a make a decision find out what I want to do is I think all successful people are very good at having a Clear Vision of what it is the ones when the north are just can't just you persist in you don't stop until you get so I started on the mindset for it was actually three years ago know over three years ago in March it was and I got about 30 40 thousand words in and I just stopped. It yeah, I didn't do anything on it for about a year and a half and then I went back to it. I sort of deleted about 10,000 words off it I didn't like and got back up to about 40,000 and then I haven't done anything on it again for probably at least sort of six months at least and then I was an event with one of my mentors and ERM. I've heard from here. Yeah, and all of the courts has and the other speakers at all their books on the shelves are member thinking fuck. I'm probably the only one here without a book. So I thought right fuck it. I'm gonna just do my property book and one of the stolen part of the mindset for and I took myself away for three weeks. And basically, I'll just draw the full lot in three weeks. It's more of some people have said to me that There's me discredit because of the amount of knowledge that I've got but I used it more of a tool as an introduction of what you can do in a bit of an introduction to me. And then in the world that we can work together people have a look at that to the like my style. That's why you my poor. I've kept the swearing in of kept sort of my personality in the book, but you have to man. I think you like you just have to be yourself always and be authentic, you know, it's just start it is part of who you are. It's you know, there's loads of top influencers out there. That's just like me doing an interview with Gary vaynerchuk and him saying please thank you. Yes, sir. No, sir all the way through. This is like not going to happen. No, but yeah, you just got be your authentic self all the time. I'm not definitely a that's the biggest thing what I've set of people if you're on the stage and you're doing that is just peace. Because I know you'll attract people like you have people who belie the dislike it and I sometimes go people say I thought like fuck squares or if this particular way or he's Flippin towards mental health. I get soft comments like that and then I get some people who score live yours. I love the fact. It's no bullshit. He's just straight to the point and just says it has it is. Mm-hmm. I don't always tell people what the one that we I'll tell them what they need to eat. here is I think that that's a lot more important and I believe that's why my mentees door seduced or well, yeah, and you know The big trends that I find with the best and biggest influences. Does Mike will fill with rain weather and property whether in social media marketing business in general is that they are their authentic self all the time. They're not trying to be anybody else. Yeah, like ever they're literally showing their audience that the true them all the time, you know, they're not they're not hiding behind Photoshop. So age they're not trying to get the best angles and every photo half the time they don't really give a shit what they look like. I mean you look at Gary vaynerchuk photos. For example, Blake's always in t-shirts jeans, and I know he's not, you know, he's not trying to make the influences that I follow especially in the same as you never out to impress anyone they just be themselves and I would naturally attract the audience and I find that's what it's been great for the podcast for example And one of the reasons why I started it is today that people can always see the real me and what I deliver and the guests I bring on the show their authentic self, you know, rather than just some like little 15-second Instagram clip of you know, pouting or something. Yeah, that was crap pile. Yeah. I got a lot of shit with that with with I did if you've seen my video outside my project where I mean, normally I'm not The scruffy bizarre there is actually a purpose of why I've got this sort of Buffon going on my hair and this big Scraggy grip action. That's this growth. There is a reason for that will come on up sure in a bit for I normally have a bit of stubble of that. Anyway, I like you said, I don't really saw a cat and some of the comments I get on my videos the do make me laugh when people call me a scruffy to our or showing where a bird's nest is and some of it is pretty funny because I know that I do come across that way that's sort of Rough and Ready the right the way that I sort of do my videos and we were talking about it before we start, you know off camera and it you're gonna get haters no matter what you do and it's purely just because like, like I said people aren't willing to put in the time and the Reps and they're just ridiculously jealous of what you have because they're not willing to put in the work to have it themselves. Yeah, and it's the same in any Armament, you know, I've had it for years. I made a lot of money off of cryptocurrency and I hope to make a lot of other people money. You know, this is what I'm serving and people were just like, oh here he is. Mr. Bitcoin whose effect years, you know, it just it was just yeah, it was laughable me. But yeah, it's you're always going to get it but you don't know laughing just cry right now. That's it, but ladies and gents going back to We've booked you can find it on Amazon is called the VIP purpose the videos called safe as houses. Okay, or mr. Stephen Green from Soldier to property millionaire. You can find it on Amazon that's safe as houses and it's going for a ridiculous cheap price get yourself a copy. All right, and I'll put again I'll put the books details in the show notes is obviously I appreciate that. So let's talk about this new project that you'd be you're growing the roughness for yeah, what I'm about to do. I'd probably need to be careful what I see it because mum mum media and marketing manager of give me a kick up the arse he's going out but I wind it in a little bit but in the next few weeks as part of my belief that it doesn't matter where you are in Life currently if you believe whatever You believe you will achieve and I'm going to I'm going to prove it doesn't matter where you are in life and our hard times. Are you can work your way back out. So I'm going to be going homeless. I'm going to be doing it from a point of having nothing. But also I'm not gonna have any mobile phone. I'm not gonna have a sleeping bag. I'm not going over there suck. I'm going to have normally literally just going to have the clothes on my back. And I've also what I'm going to be doing is I've got to find a job. So I've got to get a job and I'm not allowed to use any see these and what I like to use any of my connections are one of any contact with the outside world once I've got a job either need to get an apartment as well. So I need to prove I can get from off the streets. I'll have to do a bit of begging and stuff sort of to get you started. I'm open up and get us our share of a haircut and things like that and then get myself a job. Then get an apartment at once. I've got the apartment and I'm sort of self-sufficient with a job and its mission complete. So and there's going to be a few there's going to be a few extra little things in there. I'm going to be doing to make it to make it harder for myself. So I think I am allowed to say one of them because I've already I've already said this I've had my ass kicked so it doesn't really matter now. It's kind of out that I'm going to get the camera guy to piss in a bottle and he's literally I'm going to pour a big bottle of piss off my head. So I'm absolutely stinking. So there's no excuses of yeah, and I'm going to be doing a few other things, but I'm not allowed to say what they are right now, but they're extreme. They're actually even worse than the sort of the piss on my head and not having any sleeping bag and things are the quite extreme. So it's going to be really difficult. I know it's it's going to be a challenge. I know that with the right mindset as long as I'm focused on what it is that what I'm going to achieve and I'm persistent. I know it's just a numbers game like anything else has and eventually I'll will if I knock on a hundred dollars for a job eventually. Someone's going to say yeah, and if I do the same for an apartment eventually somebody will say so that's my mentality. It's what I live and Breathe by it's the philosophy that I teach so As long as I believe in that which I do then I know it will come with shipmate. That is amazing. And how how much is this going to be documented? You can have camera crew with you the whole time or yeah what I'm going to be some another hidden camera. So we've bought some some really Gucci kit. I'm going to have some sort of secret cameras and bits like that on and we're going to have a drawn that's following me about so when I'm sort of walking through the streets and things like that will be addressed. No, I'll be following my movement and then they'll be some sort of interviews and that from a from a sort of distance but there will only be out I will already have sort of access to the camera crew with sort of like 20 30 minutes a day. So they'll kind of Follow Me From a Distance and bits like that. But a lot of it's going to be done from the hidden camera. And then when I sort of hit certain Milestones like getting a job and things like that, that's when we'll delve colouring and so Sort of I think they're intending and that once I've nailed that the bell and following and we'll sort of do a little bit of an interview on that bit of how I've managed to achieve. So the church that's amazing. Is it is it going to be made into a proper feature-length documentary? Yeah, and he doesn't want to do it as a documentary. Once it cut it cut me wants to kind of do it as a film and he wants to have a documentary off the back of it of all the extra bits of That's how we got there the journey some of the challenges and things are we sort of made in the bits with a drawn so probably a couple of documentaries will come off the back of you think and sort of a 60 and 90 minutes of film as that through a particular TV network, or is it just a sole protector? Yeah, we do. It ourselves. I was in talks with the with one of the offshoots of the BBC because I was I was on a program to make you wrecked car. But that's been shot again this month actually from the 23rd to the 25th of this month. That's about Hanukkah. So I was I was on that and I was in talk to them about them covering it the really keen on doing it and they just kept stalling it it went on and on dragged on for a year and a half and in the end our new camera guy come on, and I told him and he just won't bollocks to it. Let's do it ourselves. He said we'll get all up here and let's just roll with it. So Want something done do it yourself and all that exactly. Yeah. Well, that's amazing. But I'm actually got really really looking forward to seeing that already like what a project. Yeah, it's my partner and a lot of my coaches didn't want me to do it. I've wanted to do it for five years to be honest. I've said it for quite a long time now. There's been a lot in my uniform area. There's been two homeless people one. That was he with scraping it and he ended up taking his own life. And then another one was recently killed as well. But I've actually had someone contact me in the League's area who deals with homeless people advising me not to do it because there's there's been a lot of attacks on homeless people at the moment. So it's disgusting and it like how leads people to attack a homeless person. It's just So yeah, it's when we were in actually leads. Between December between sort of Christmas and New Year last year me and my partner and it was a Friday night. We've gone out for a couple of drinks in the mail and stuff and we seen a girl in front of us and she kicked kicked a homeless guy in the head for no reason if sort of out with them it's and yeah, it's it's a horrible thing like you sir. Yes. I raise this one. Okay, so final questions Finish them a positive got still time machine and you've got your chance to put a little Post-it in it with a couple of bullet points and send it back to 16 year old Steven. What are those bullet points? Say to the youngest even Trust that the river bends. Okay, and and can you elaborate on that a little bit and I'm a big believer. Now that one of the things that I teach people is in life, if you're in flaw, I believe that a lot of people who have believed the first level of Consciousness is is victim mentality that life happens to you as a second level of Consciousness level. We learned that we can create our own results for it tends to be a battle of like a swim upstream. So you sort of fighting against the current and then Consciousness level three is just trusting that the the river bends that you might be going down a river and it might appear in you think you're going the mentally going straight and it starts to go off up Direction, but trust in our little Bend in it will go to where it eventually you need to be. It's the all term of you. You might have heard it that person can fall in a pile of shit and come up smelling and Roses the when somebody's in for that's what tends to happen Resorts or just come on really quickly and it's just about giving up control. It's about giving up the need for control. Should I say not giving up control? It's giving up the need for control and it's just about being relaxed trusting hundred percent that what you do will all work out fine. It's so bad that I'm big on the big believer in it. Now that it's so that happens in my life and it appears to be a disaster a cop or whatever. I just look at it. And I know that it's all part of what I meant to be a part of this is there's another opportunity of brought to learn to develop some very much now in a very relaxing things. I don't get stressed out. I'm very calm and looking back it took me a lot of years together. So yeah, if I wish the sun myself sort of one message it would be to do that a lot earlier of just keep believing in yourself and just trust that River or been to wear it where you need to grow up. Maybe that's fantastic and there's a quite a bit of a trend actually with the previous guests of Halden of said pretty much a similar thing obviously in different contexts. And the main message is to actually you know, really believe yourself trust yourself. Don't don't listen to what everyone else Else says don't try and please everyone else in just but if they like maintain that flow and good things will happen to you. Yeah, I believe one of the probably the biggest thing that stops people from succeeding and probably one of the biggest things that causes anxiety stress depression is people worrying too much what other people think about. I've got a sin it was somebody else. Who are you said it rich stuck in my head that what somebody else thinks about you is none of your Fucking business and I truly believe that because if somebody's thinking about you they're going to think it anywhere regardless if you don't want them to or not. So what they're thinking is their issue it's their business. It's nothing to do with you and if you can truly let that bra and it just allows you to be free to do your own work without sort of judging yourself and think of what Willie think what will she think and all of that bullshit limitations that we give? Ourselves. Yeah, and you know we all know as well that if you spend the majority of our time trying to please somebody else or posting certain things to get likes or whatever and that's occupying not you know drive your head space majority of the time what people don't realize is that people they're trying to impress nine times Outta ten don't give a shit. Anyway, definitely. I actually don't care. Yeah, and I think I think we all do that. I think it's natural to do that. I think. It was probably only three years ago three four years ago maximum that most of the things that I'd done was ego-driven. So like the extension on my house or all of those things. It was a bit of that like a fuck off to the world. Like I've worked hard for this you all down with me and initially it was a bit like it was just a prove that that sort of point to other people. We're now I've stopped caring like the or I used to count on my like some My birthday and stuff and think well, I've got a hundred and fifty likes a show. That's it. Almost must be an unpopular. And now I just I really just thought care. It doesn't bother me. I'm just I'm in such a bad place that are not for not for not caring about those things and if people delete me where I used to take it personal I actually now I think somebody unliking you is just as important of somebody liking your and foreign you because you just polarizing And rid of the people are you not meant to be in line with it frees up space to be more in line with people you are in line with because if you try to please everyone you'll please nobody. Yeah, exactly and it's all sort of is about isn't it is finding out who your audience is and I say this to people all the time, you know, because I hope so, you know, some Petey's out and stuff like that and I'm trying to reiterate the fact that you know, your friends your family your cousins and stuff act like they're not your Since man, they like just if they had the thing I'm not interested in your stuff. Don't get like hit up about it. Just like you need to realize they're not your audience and you know the same your business and it's even more podcast mate. I don't think I think my brother's maybe listen to a few episodes, but I'm pretty sure my old dear is not even heard one. I could say hey Mom how you doing? And I guarantee that like sweet message me like next week and say oh thanks for the show, but I'm not father. This is like Everyone has their thing, you know, yeah my dad's when I wrote the book and I actually dropped him a copy off and I went round a couple of days later and I said have you read the book you when I read the first few pages a lot of the show from proper. No problem. Is that proper generation that mentality? What read for growth? Yes. I fit. My I reckon my mom would be the same day. If I like write a book. I don't think she'd just be like well, which one do I like shit for it's all the same with the coaching the step Dodgers. Like honestly to cuddle what I do to be like, you know, why don't you that proper British? Yeah, that's good. Alright Steve mate. It's been absolutely phenomenal having them on the show before we leave you like to just let the listeners and the viewers know where they can find you on social media where they can get a touch of you and obviously if they want to come to an event that you've got coming up. Yeah, so the property Sideshow anybody sort of interested in property trading. My speciality is commercial or residential it's where I believe the big money is right. Now there's a massive opportunity and that so I have the property investment Academy so you can find that it's under the property investment Academy Stephen green. I have a YouTube channel, which again is just under my name is Steven green. I tend to put a lot of content on their of certain strategies. Are we And get started with money as some of my mindset ones and things like that is starting to add them as well. And then what we've got. I've got the I've got I've just I've actually just got on the Twitter and that I don't know with work store. My marketing guy sorted it out for me. So I'm not quite sure I'll that side of it works. But yeah, the main sort of places are the Facebook property investment Academy and the YouTube channel. A superb and I will be sure to put all your links in the show notes as well. So people can kind of hold your bun. There's no reason why they wouldn't be able to make it's been an absolute pleasure to finally have you on the show. I'm such a big fan of what you're doing. And that's why like I said previously like what you're doing. I was lying so much of what well, I'd like love doing and what my beliefs are and what you do for other people is just, you know, phenomenal and on behalf of The listeners and viewers, you know wish you all the best and especially with your big projects coming up. I'll be definitely tuning in to see how that progresses and I like to use this opportunity as a form of accountability to say that I will be up to one of your seminars in the near future. So everyone's heard it right here. Yeah. I've seen it. I've seen how productive they are me and my wife's looking into getting its property investment. So what better opportunity so yeah, you know, feel free to send me Loads of free tickets in the The Postman object but we will link. This is a free event this Friday. It's pretty short notice. That one's in Middlesboro. I think the next one after that two leads probably a bit closer for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we'll chat about afterwards. But yeah, but looking definitely interested in coming up in the near future with the wife man guys and girls if you didn't take away any golden nuggets from this episode need to go and have a serious word for yourself in the Wonder what Steve cheverus today is nothing but phenomenal from having a pretty rough upbringing to you know, trying to trying to make himself a what the best version of himself for his time in the Army pursuing Excellence during his army career leaving army to get in his property and then becoming a property millionaire by sheer hard work determination. And what is that done? It is just shown you that anything is possible. And we as up-and-coming project that he has got about, you know becoming homeless and then going on to showing people that you can get from the bottom back to the top something. I'm very looking forward to it. I'm sure the listeners and viewers be looking forward to tuning in that as well guys and girls, I've hoped you've enjoyed this episode. If you have please please share with your friends and please leave a review your feedback means the absolute world to the show and what it does. Is it helps get the message out there to more and more people, so, please leave us a five-star review if you can leave a six-star. Alright until next time. I'll see you on the best version of you. Goodbye. Thanks.
Steven Green - a former Sergeant in the Royal Engineers isn't your run of the mill veteran. He's what most would class as a sensational entrepreneur. Born and raised in Redcar in the Northeast of England, Steve had a particularly difficult upbringing which resulted in him later following his friends and joining the British Army and the Royal Engineers where he served in many arduous countries around the world including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Oman. During Steve's successful military career he found a real thirst for personal development, often getting himself on education courses, learning new skills and improving his financial intellect. As a result Steve bought his first investment property in 2006. He left the army in 2010 to focus fully on property and now has over 50 properties. Today on The Best Version Of You, Steve shares with us his amazing story and also greatest passion - To help others by showing them how to create the lifestyle he has made for himself. He does this through multiple training courses and seminars around the country, and today is marked as one of the greatest property investing coaches in the UK. To date Steve has helped thousands of people create a far better lifestyle for themselves, but has also changed the lives of many by coaching them to improve their mindset. Something he goes into great detail about in his seminars and courses. It really is something to behold, and the same can be said for Steve's latest project! - To live on the streets with no contacts, help or guidance - completely homeless, with no food or money. Steve's aim is to prove to people that even as a homeless person you can still get out of the darkest hole, find a paying job, then find accommodation. This will hopefully inspire many homeless people in his home town of Redcar and around the UK. Check out the full article HERE To contact Steve you can find him on Facebook @Propertyinvestmentacademy  Guys and girls. It means the world to me and gets my message out there to more and more people. Thank you! 