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Jamal Edwards

lines on the record: 73
first: 2019-10-10
most recent: 2019-10-10
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Exactly. That typo can fuck the whole thing up. That's what I'm saying. It happens to me. It happens to you. And I think that's important to know. Some people might not get their first business for years. You just got to keep on going. And I think that's one of the things I always try and push is that self-belief, keep on going. Because there were times when I couldn't get certain artists. Even today, I might not be able to get certain artists or certain brand that I want to try and do and we don't win the pitch, but we just got to keep on going.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like, because there are brands that, for example, if you're to go real simple, if you're pitching for work and you don't get it, that's, I think, one of the things that happens all the time. And necessarily you don't talk about that. And I feel like I haven't necessarily talked about that a lot where we'll go into it. But I guess that's an ongoing conversation because then you just repitch again instead of it being like, oh, we didn't win this brand work. So you wouldn't say the brand. But I think that happens a lot. And I think people need to know that happens a lot. You don't just win every single pitch. I don't know any business that wins every single pitch. You always have, except for men like Steve Barley.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, because I'm much more known. So I feel like I've got something to live up to more than back in the day it was just me and my mates. And I feel like when I was a little bit younger, you were a bit more nimble. Like I'm getting older now. So it's like the mistakes you make is like you've been doing this for how long now. You still make mistakes, but not as many mistakes as you make as when you're younger. So I feel like, yeah, it is a bit more pressure now. But I don't mind if something did bad happen, I would say it. I would put it online and I just got to learn from it, innit?”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like you just feel like, do you know what I'm saying? I don't know if I want to do this or do that. And that I try, like that happens every now and then. It does.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Positive messages, like I do quite often post stuff like if it's not going well, I do try and do that as well as much as I post the positive stuff because I just want people to know the realism is not all like up. Do you know what I'm saying? Like there are some times when I have like downtimes and where I'm just like I just want to be left alone. And I think that's so important and I always try and push those messages as much as I put like positive messages up as well. And I think it has a positive effect of showing the real. Of what goes on day to day instead of it.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have my moments in it. So I'll be like some days I'm just like, oh, I can't be asked. No, you can't be asked. It's just that I don't know what it is. You just feel like demotivated a bit. I don't know where it comes from. I think one of the things you can see that is if I don't post social media, I go disappear for a bit. That's when I'm just like, I just need me time sort of thing. Because it is a job in itself to keep up the...”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You a list. Yeah, they gave me a list of everything was huge. And yeah, like it was like Lady Garga and Justin Bieber was like my counterpart. I was the one in the UK. And I think the reason why it did well is because a lot of people related to the story, but it was a surreal moment It was a surreal moment.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was like the first ad break of X Fats of that. I know. I was like sweating. Really? Literally sweating. I was like, I've got the list of where it was going. It was on Sky Sports.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, especially you can start business at whatever age. I did pocket money pitch and kids like 11 years old was pitching me forecast. I was like, what, this is crazy. So I feel like the age now has been lowered. I think when we were in school, entrepreneurship and business wasn't really co-signed as much as it is now. And then seeing people like myself, people like you, other people breaking down the barriers. And like, you know what? Actually enterprise can be done at whatever age it is. It doesn't matter what background you're from because people are actually making it happen.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People say but you're this age, like what you doing, you can't tell me to do that. And I said like that. And it's not saying that people that worked for me was like that, but that was just Programmed in my head, like I used to tell myself that over and over again, that was definitely like something I had to overcome.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think I was like the youngest boss, if you could say that. Everyone that I employed was older than me. And it was very daunting for me to be telling people, oh, yeah, do it, like, let's do it like this. I used to let people sway my decisions because I was like, I've always been taught to respect your elders. So if I say, oh, let's do a video like this, someone order them means, but I think it's like this. I'm like, yeah, probably no better because you've got more experience. Or like more years on your age. But I had to learn to sort of take that back and actually do what I wanted to do. But in early days, it was very daunting. I would never tell people this because I'm just way older than me. They're not going to listen to me. I'm like, like, I'm a kid to them. Do you know what I'm saying? And I think I had to overcome that fear of just...”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm cool. No, I'm cool. I always get like people, they'll just literally stare in my face. I'll be like, all right, and then I'm like, you know what I'm saying? So I know how to deal with it now. But first, when I was a little bit younger, I just didn't know how to deal with it because I didn't understand”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just didn't understand it at first, and then I sort of got a bit used to it. But at first, I was just a bit like, whoa.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why taking a picture? And I didn't understand. And then I'd be like My name, like, do you think I'm mistaken or do you like is it something odd? But most of the time, like all the time, people say, oh, Jamal, come on, man. SBTV. And then I'm like, yeah, cool. But then also, like, my mum being on X Factor as well, I used to see it with her. So she didn't win. But she got fourth place in second or third series, which is the year that Shane Ward won it. But I remember going shopping and people coming up to her and asking pictures and all that sort of stuff. So I used to see that and I never used to think that would be for me. Never. I was always Brenda from X-Factor's son. And then it like switched as like Jamal from SBTV's mum. I was just like, it's mad”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's just living your life in a public and I'm all for making mistakes and for people to learn from them and myself learn from them. But I think it was a lot of pressure of making sure you're the way you dress like all that sort of stuff. And it was only to a certain point where people didn't know who I was. It was only my local people that knew who I was. The Google Chrome advert then took me to another level in terms of publicity, which I was, I think, about 19. I was just like, whoa, it's just mad. Like, people come knocking me taking pictures, people staring at me. I was like, what is staring at me for? I'll just get mad anxious. I was like, and I was like, and then some people got to the point of where people take pictures and that, and I'll be like,”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mom. My stepdad. I don't know my real dad. So he's been very supportive in my life from the early days of when I wanted to get certain cameras, certain equipment. But yeah, I think I had a strict upbringing, which made me be much more of a rebel Because I was like, I'm free and I”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That I did. So my mum's parents died in a car crash when she was four. So my mum and my uncle had to stay with my aunties and they were very strict, like so strict. And my mom has then made it very strict for me. Like very strict, like not allowed out. I wasn't even allowed out until I was, I don't know what age, I think it was like just as I was turning teenager. But I remember always coming home and I always remember them films, you know, like Jack Robin Williams where he's like a big kid and then he goes home and all the kids on the area wonder who is he like yeah you saw him did you see him I was like like have similarities to that because I was like everyone knew I was there but I wasn't allowed that like what does he do like that had a little bit of an effect on like how I can experience like just life outside of being my my parents”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Being like a bit of a class clown or whatever. Did you get good grades? I got all right grades. I didn't get the grades I wanted to get into a first year at college. So I did a national, I did a BTEC national diploma in me to move an image, but I had to do a whole other year because I think I missed one grade because I needed like four or like six ACs. So I had to do a whole other year. I did a first diploma for a year and then I did the national diploma, which was two years. So I ended up doing that three years at college. So all my mates that went straight to the two-year course, I had to do a first year course, which was a bit of like an eye-opener and that should have focused a little bit more in school. But yeah.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The psychiatrist find out what was their conclusion? I don't know, like it was just. Needed to be stimulated more. I'm just not engaged with things that you're not interested in. Basically, yeah, yeah, yeah, which caused to me.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think one of the things that I just my attention span that there were some things I did enjoy, I enjoyed more the physical stuff. Like ICT stuff like that, but actually didn't take me to a business in school from primary school or high school, which was quite funny how I now got into media and business. But I was very, I just had a very short attention span and that led to sort of like behaviour, behavior problems. I remember in year nine I got put to a psychiatrist because there was like, why, what, what's going on? I think I still got a report at home. I don't know why they did that. I only went for like a couple sessions. They wanted to see, just ask me questions and find out a bit more about my life. But yeah, I have a very short attention span.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you were allowing people that followed you You a question and you responded on Skype, and I thought that was crazy, crazy, crazy, yeah, and that was probably, I don't know, seven, eight, seven years ago or something crazy”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First and foremost, I think I just wanted to say thank you. Oh, my guy humbly. No, for real. You're not rushing it as well. I'm not a bullshitter, but like genuinely.”
2019-10-10 · The Diary of a CEO · E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where to start, there's so much that I have to ask you if I take it back in my sort of journey. When I was 18 years old and I was in Manchester,”
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