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The ultimate resource for business owners, leaders, entrepreneurs, and personal development junkies.
This podcast is all about YOU and YOUR success. Bringing the world's best business experts and thought leaders into your environment, giving you the tools and knowledge you need to increase your capability and shape the person you become.
Business Excellence is about taking you to the top of your game and achieving excellence in both business and life.
And we don't just talk the talk – we walk the walk. Powered by ActionCOACH, the World's Number 1 Business Coaching Firm. It’s not about theoretical knowledge – it’s about giving you practical action steps to implement in your business and life right away.
So what are you waiting for? Subscribe to the Business Growth Podcast and enjoy your future success. Prepare to take action, become the person you want to be and attract the business and life you want to have.
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Finding Meaning in Life After 15 Years Battling Cancer | David Smith MBE
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What happens when everything you’ve built your identity around—success, strength, achievement—is suddenly stripped away?
In this deeply moving episode of The Business Growth Podcast, David Smith MBE shares his remarkable story of resilience, recovery, and rediscovery after 15 years of living with cancer.
David isn’t just a survivor. He’s a seven-time surgery veteran, a Paralympic gold medallist, and a man who’s redefined what it means to win at life.
From the outside, David’s story is about sport and survival.
But listen closer, and it’s about something even greater—how to find meaning, gratitude, and connection when life tests you to your core.
“Cancer stripped away my identity. It forced me to ask: Who am I when there’s nothing left to prove?”
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The truth about resilience – and why it’s not about strength, but surrender.
- How to live as a human being, not a human doing.
- The role of emotional intelligence in healing, leadership, and growth.
- Why awareness is the real gift—and how to use it to make better choices.
- The four legs of life – a simple model David uses to stay grounded.
- How to build a life that matters even when the plan falls apart.
David opens up about life in and out of hospital wards, the voices that kept him going, and the unexpected teachers he met along the way—including world-class coaches, Buddhist monks, and his own inner critic.
“I realised I’d spent my life trying to be somebody, when all I needed was to be me.”
For entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone facing uncertainty—this episode isn’t about illness.
It’s about living. About slowing down long enough to hear your own truth.
And about discovering that growth doesn’t always come from winning—it often comes from letting go.
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