I’ve known today's guest for many years, and the first thing I asked Gareth Davis to talk about was his memory of first meeting the Scott family.
Gareth first met my son David when he was at Westlea Primary School in Swindon. David was about five or six when he joined Gareth’s martial arts class and Gareth talks about how martial arts can help people/children to learn and move at their own pace. Plus the skills they learn can be transferred into other aspects of their lives, giving them confidence.
He shares his story of how he became a black belt at the age of eight after finding a passion for the discipline. He talks about how hard he trained and how he knew it was what he wanted to do from an early age – even when talking to the schools’ careers teacher when he was older. He left school with all A and B grades at GCSE level, but didn’t want to go on to do more schooling. Although his parents did persuade him – for all of six weeks. After working as a teacher, he set up his own business when he was 20, when he took over his old instructor’s business when the latter moved to the US.
We talk about how Gareth managed to build up good relationships with local Swindon schools, which grew particularly when opportunities for private providers to run afterschool clubs and activities came along and how he used PR in his business.
Gareth shares three fantastic top tips for starting a business which in brief are:
Then after 15 years of doing the thing that was his passion, Gareth made a huge change to his life and moved to the US. He shares the fascinating and brave story of how he moved to the US to be with his girlfriend/ now wife just as Covid was taking over the world. He had to make a quick decision, otherwise they wouldn’t have seen each other for two years! Since living in Las Vegas, he has re-trained to work in residential real estate.
If you want to know more about how that move went and how things are going, you need to listen to the podcast – where you’ll hear the 5 things about Las Vegas that are better than the UK, and the things that Gareth misses about the UK!
To contact Gareth:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_garethdavis_/
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