1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Now. Simon Squibb is known for one simple question, what's 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: your dream? That's what he asks. He's a British entrepreneur 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: who asks people this when he meets them on the street, 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: and if he likes the answer they give, then he 5 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: gives them twenty five pounds to make their dreams come true. 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: He's got millions of followers on social media and we've 7 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: discovered he's in New Zealand because we spotted a video 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: on his install where he meets a chef in a reby. 9 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: We're a cafe. Excuse me, I. 10 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 2: Need to speak to the chef. Vuns you at the chef, Yes, 11 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: thank you so much. This pastor is the best past 12 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 2: I've ever had in my life. You are so talented. 13 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: I have to ask you what's your dream? 14 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 2: How wants you have? 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: I'd like to help you try and make it happen. Right, 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: So we watched it, We got in touch with Simon 17 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: Squibb asked him, if you're in New Zealand, can you 18 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: come on the show? He said, yes, Simon, welcome. 19 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 2: It's great to be here. 20 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: Simon. Why are you in the country. Have you come 21 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: here with a view to handing out dollars? Yeah? 22 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: Kind of. I have family that live in Auckland, so 23 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: primarily here to visit the family. 24 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: And so you'll so you're actually here on a family visit, 25 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: but you're still doing your thing where you hand out 26 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand. 27 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: I can't help it. I love hearing people's dreams, and 28 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: so there's no holiday from helping people that need it. 29 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 2: And so yeah, I have actually now helped four people 30 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: in New Zealand with their dreams, which is pretty exciting. 31 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 2: And yeah, it's part of my life. I don't have 32 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: work life balance. I just have life. So I like 33 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: my work and I like my life, so I mix 34 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: them together now. 35 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: So I'm in the clip that we played just before. 36 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: Is a chef who you were. You were eating pasta 37 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: in a place in Auckland. Loved the pastor so much 38 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: asked for the chef said to the chef, you want 39 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: to make her dream come true. She wants to buy 40 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 1: the restaurant that she works in, which is for sale. 41 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: Has she bought it? Because you haven't delivered that club yet. 42 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: Has she bought it? 43 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: So the clip is out in a minute, and shall 44 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: I shall I let everyone go watch it? Or shall 45 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: I shall I break that man? 46 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: But I can't wait. You've got to tell me. 47 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: I don't want to ruin it for everyone, though they 48 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: might might like watching the whole story. 49 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: Ah, oh no, you've got to tell me. 50 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: I've got to know, all right, all right. The short 51 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: answer is that Pink Boccoley is alive in Auckland. It's 52 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 2: now hers. 53 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: This is what she wanted to call her a restaurant, 54 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,839 Speaker 1: Pink Broccoli, and so she's exactly my can you, I mean, 55 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: you must be aware of how life changing that is. 56 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: Like there's a woman who just randomly cooks you a 57 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: pasta in someone else's cafe, you come and eat it. 58 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: Now she owns her own place. That's amazing. 59 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: It's his fate though. So the backstory is I went 60 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 2: there with my family for breakfast. I'm staying nearby an airbnb, 61 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: and I just went there for breakfast, totally random. And then, 62 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: because you know in the clips, we can't show every 63 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 2: detail because it's too much, but she popped out and said, oh, hello, 64 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 2: I'm such a big fan of yours. I bought your book. 65 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 2: We just released the book in New Zealand. So she 66 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: brought the book and she said, I love it and 67 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 2: I have a dream. I was like, oh, thank you 68 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: so much. And then the bell went off and she 69 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: had to go into the kitchen and start cooking again, 70 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: and so I was just talking. I'm like, oh, this 71 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: is amazing. There's a fan here. That's so sweet. And 72 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 2: then we said, oh, why don't we pretend to complain 73 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 2: about the food, which is kind of the worst thing 74 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: you can do with a fan who's a chef, You 75 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 2: complain about their food, right, That sounds like the worst 76 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 2: thing you could do. But the food was amazing, so 77 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 2: it was the opposite to a complaint, as we saw 78 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: in the video. And so so then I basically didn't 79 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: actually hear her full dream. So I said, what's your dream? 80 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: She tells me it's to own her own cafe one 81 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: day called Pink Bocoley, and it just got me the 82 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: name just instantly. When I hear someone's thought about it 83 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: that much, I know it has to become a reality. 84 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: And then she told me that the cafe that she's 85 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: working in is actually for sale, which again it's just fate, 86 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, why don't why don't you buy it? 87 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: She's like, well, I haven't got any money. I can't 88 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: buy it, and I'm like, we have to fix this. 89 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: You know, I'm visualizing in my head this branding Pink Broccoli. 90 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: It has to happen. The food's amazing, she's amazing. She 91 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: just doesn't have any money to kind of make the 92 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 2: dream and reality, and so I feel it's my obligation 93 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 2: to help make it happen. So I had to put 94 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: the money up to buy the cafe and see Pink 95 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: Bockley coming life. 96 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: Okay, so what do you do? What'sn't it for you? 97 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: Do you do? You take a steak in it? 98 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: I take absolutely nothing. I don't. I do invest in businesses. 99 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,559 Speaker 2: It's one of the things I do is I invest 100 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: in businesses and I take equity stakes in businesses. So, 101 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 2: for example, I've invested in a business called Lovable, which 102 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: is actually a six billion US dollar company right now 103 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: that I invested in early. And you know, so I 104 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 2: do invest in businesses and take equity steaks, but that's 105 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 2: a tech company. It's very scalable. I don't want to 106 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 2: take a dreamer's business. That's I'm not a dragon on 107 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 2: dragons then or a shark on sharks tank. I just 108 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: if I can help someone with a little bit of money, 109 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: a little bit of mine, a little bit of love, 110 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,799 Speaker 2: a little bit of support, a little bit of business knowledge. 111 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 2: You know, in reality, it's not huge money. I've made 112 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 2: a lot of money in my life. I've been very lucky, 113 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 2: and so it's just giving back, you know. And I 114 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: do it because I enjoy it, and that's a selfish thing. 115 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: I really enjoy hearing people's dreams and then finding a 116 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 2: way to make it happen. But I also was fifteen 117 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 2: once and tried to start a business and didn't have 118 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 2: any money, didn't have any help, and it was so hard, 119 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: and so I vowed, when I make it in life, 120 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 2: I'll give back. And this is what this is. Really. 121 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: It's just like helping that fifteen year old be if 122 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 2: you're talking to a psychiatrist. That's what they'd say, and 123 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 2: that's what it is really. 124 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: So how do people You know, if somebody was like, geez, 125 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: I just need to come across Simon scrubs radar and 126 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: it will change my life, how did they do that? Well? 127 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: The first thing I would say is most of the 128 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: time people's dreams they can make happen if they stop 129 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 2: making excuses. So, you know, people do make a lot 130 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 2: of excuses they self sabotage themselves. So just check do 131 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 2: you really need Simon because a lot of the time 132 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 2: you don't, And so I think that's important. I don't 133 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 2: want people to wait for, you know, a hero to 134 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: come along and save you. You have to save yourself. You 135 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: have to take agency over your life. So look, if 136 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: you want, if you want to get my attention, it's 137 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 2: it's very simple. Follow your dream and tell the world 138 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: about it. At some point we'll cross paths. I have 139 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 2: set up a double of dreams in a couple of 140 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 2: locations around the world where you can go, press a 141 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 2: button and pitch your dream, and then we upload it 142 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 2: and try and help people. You can go on a 143 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: platform I built. It costs you absolutely nothing to use 144 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: it called helpbank dot com. You go there, you tell 145 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 2: your dream, and there's three hundred thousand entrepreneurs on there 146 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 2: ready to try and help you for free. So yes, 147 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: you can bump into me in the street, or you know, 148 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: I can bump into you. That's another way. But I 149 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 2: always tell people a lot of the reason I do 150 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: this is to not just help the person in the video, 151 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: but to help someone watching the video realize how easy 152 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: it actually is to make your own dream and reality 153 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 2: and stop making excuses. Just go for it. 154 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: Brilliant, It is so nice to talk to you. Enjoy 155 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: you stay here and yeah, thanks for making the time. 156 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: For us, not at all. Thank you for doing a 157 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: story and giving a shout out to to to the 158 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 2: amazing dreamer. Go there and eat, you will love the food. 159 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 2: For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to 160 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 161 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.