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Nick Elston (www.nickelston.com) is a leading Inspirational Speaker,  Transformational Speaking Coach & Founder of Forging People (www.forgingpeople.com) - empowering, inspiring and educating people to step up, find their voice & truly be heard in life, in education, in leadership, in influencing & in business.

The Nick Elston Show brings you the people who inspire, motivate, educate & engage in all walks of life - sharing their insights & experiences honestly, unfiltered & off script!

This week, in the 2nd episode of Season 7, Nick speaks to the brilliant Marc Pugh - Former top flight professional footballer & creator of ‘The Foodie Footballer’!

Themes we cover in this episode;

- Marc’s journey through life, education, his professional path & the road to where he is today.
- The story behind ‘The Foodie Footballer’
- The importance of mindset - vision boards, visualisations & resilience.
- Why faith plays such a big part in Marc’s continued success.
- Life as a professional footballer & it’s effect on family life.
- How Marc coped & thrived in stressful environments & negative attention from fans,
- Marc’s first steps into public speaking & what is next for Marc.
- Plus memorable goals, the lowest of lows, being labelled as a ‘money grabber’ - and, of course - Marc’s ‘walk on music’ of choice & lots, lots more along the way!

Marc shares with such vulnerability, openness, candour, clarity & humour - such a great guest - an engaging, inspirational & powerful episode.

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