Dean Forbes: Telesales to £40 Million w/ Lin Mei | Link Up TV Originals
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In the pilot episode of 'Lin Mei Talks’ sees Lin Mei sit down with Dean Forbes to help prove sports, music and the entertainment industry in general are not the only options we have to make it out of the hood or be successful. This brand new series will see Lin shine a light on successful people who come from humble beginnings but found their success outside of the entertainment industry.
From very humble beginnings, growing up in both Peckham and Lewisham; Dean Forbes was born to a disabled mother and an absent father. Living in hostels with his single mother and two brothers, twice - due to homelessness, Dean has now amassed a net worth said to be approximately £40M+, with a watch collection worth over £2M. The Powerlist 2021 entrepreneur breaks stereotypes of having to obtain wealth via the entertainment industry and starting his own business... Find out how he became a millionaire at 27 from working for other companies.
As advertised during the episode, Dean Forbes is offering mentorship opportunities for future leaders and will take up an advisory role in one small business and also allow one person to shadow him to gain an insight into what it takes to be successful in his world. To apply for this opportunity, write a couple of paragraphs explaining why and how you think this could benefit you and your business, and submit it to Lin at info@linmeitalks.com
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We need more of these conversations please! I will even go as far and say ONLY these types conversations please 🙏🏿. Let’s empower our people!
This Chanel needs too be filled with inspirational people like this so their messages can be seen by the younger generation
LinkupTV.....this shit is so refreshing to see. Content that is inspiring us youths and showing us more that one avenue to success
I take my hat 🎩 off to this … inspiring.. inspirational..very calm and collective.. and the content of the interview is the essence ⭐️ 💡
Why are there no comments under this. This needs to be shared to all Young kids and adults. There is another option.
Big respect to Dean Forbes, and the host for this interview. 👏 🦾👍🏿🇯🇲
We need more interviews like this👌🏾💯
Thank you!✨
First time commenting, this interview is amazing the content is fruitful and very clean interview from this lin 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Love this! This is the content we need more of
Great interview, trust the process.
As an Arsenal fun, this statement gave me PTSD😅
Excellent interview we need more stuff like this
bmt it's content like this that I live for
Interviewer really needs to choose different choice of words and not interrupt when the guest is trying to answer her question🤦🏾♂️ props to him for his patience. I think due to the friendship they have off camera she’s forgotten it’s an actual interview not a catch up after work
I'm really enjoying these interviews. Its inspiring to see successful black british individuals who have no ties to entertainment imndustry/sports etc killing it! do keep it up!
Not 💩 on working a 9-5 but the moral of this story is that he became a millionaire from ownership, not working a 9-5. He would've only been a "thousandaire" (nothing wrong with that) if he didn't have some share of the businesses he worked at. Also having expertise and skills that are in high demand play a massive part.
He still works a 9-5 though. He leveraged his expertise and they gave him shares.
@@tomtomsatnavi 6:30 - 8:40 he explains that he made millions from ownership.
Granted he isn't a footballer or an entertainer etc but the fact is, he is a multi-millionaire from corporate ownership, by being an owner-operator not "just from being a CEO" or solely from his salary for that role (his "9-5"). The point is ownership.
@@bupss7553 you’re right. I’d love to see a part 2 where he explains how he approached those conversations about getting shares instead of a pay rise etc - it’s a difficult conversation to have negotiating wages when you’re already on a salary and a lot of people find it intimidating or don’t know their worth within a company. He must have some gems.
@@DJLioness He mentioned that he negotiates with failing businesses before working with them. You get to know your worth with experience and by having proven track record, concrete results and good relationships.
If you have something to offer that is valuable to someone or their business and they desperately need the skills or knowledge that you have, they will pay for it one way or another (salary, shares).
Make yourself indispensable, even if you may have to sacrifice time or money in the first instance so that you can gain experience and provide an immense amount of value.
In the corporate world and generally in life we have to serve before we can lead.
He wouldn’t be there if he didn’t work a 9-5 mate. Get ur head out the clouds
Awesome interview. I love Lin! ❤
More content, like this! great to hear deans story!
Great interview, very insightful 💥💥💥
Thank I really enjoyed this and it’s very much needed 👏🏾
Very intelligent and inspiring 🤞🏼
Serious guest and a lot gained from this conversation! I do not believe however the interviewer was experienced enough for an interview of this magnitude. Questions were surface level and unprofessional conduct asking about his watch collections and forcing the 40 mill net worth he clearly wasn’t willing to verify publicly.
19:30 As an Jamaican/American I was taught that the upper class were the enemy. Why’s the middle class consider the enemy in the UK?
The upper class here is gentry ie old money. I think it has a different meaning here
Thank you ♥️🤝🏾👊🏾
A millionaire is not middle class great talk people just stop blaming evertying on race and get on your grind
The Uk thing is a joke, the Uk if you compare to the rest of the world has some of the greatest options and services to allow social mobility. Yes we’re not Hong Kong, Singapore the Scandy nations but we’re very much in the top percentile of countries opportunity wise in the world.
Exactly the best we & anyone can do is try our best to be successful by committing to the process. The issues come when people don't even bother to try, even with what they deem are limited resources you have to play your best hand.
Not watched or listened yet but good or bad, more of this pls 🙏🏾
Love this content much better than the usual bullshit drill music with negative messages we see and hear every day. I did notice the interviewer should have been more mature though, she didn’t truly understand and take in a lot of the things he was speaking of. Just some positive feedback but I believe he should have been interviewed by a more mature person and someone who is on his level emotionally and intellectually.
Thank you for your feedback. I have interviewed Dean a few times for various platforms and when it was done for a corporate platform - the younger demographic found it too technical, long and a little too in depth, so with this, I was a little different and it was received better, by the target audience. Again , appreciate your feedback
How she saying “by just being a CEO” 😂 this woman isn’t qualified to interview this guy or any entrepreneurs/ business people for that matter
Have to agree
Totally agree with you. She is immature and not respectful enough of this gentleman. We need to hold our highly successful people like Dean in high regard.
I don’t wanna throw here under a bus but totally agree with you. That comment hurt.
Yep & the scoffing at £150K, so silly especially when you understand finance and how through investing a good chunk of that kind of money will compound over time.
This is interesting however, the only thing is that can his journey be replicated in this environment now? I doubt it, a lot has changed. Not taking anything away from him though, I respect his work ethic.
Yes - people are doing it regularly it’s just that you don’t hear or know about it.
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This video was made for people like you
very insightful
30:21 "Silly things yeah". Yeah, silly things
Very interesting indeed 🤓🤔
Interesting how a video named "money won't make you happy" has far more views than this one. I'd wager people love that phrase, as it gives them an excuse to not try at being succesful
Love this 🙌🙌
Inspiring.
Love this! #GrowthMindsetDaily
I dont know ... seems like theres a lot more to this story than what hes saying
Plenty of jewels to ascertain and duplicate. Mr Forbes has not only laid down but demonstrated the Blackprint
It's a shame this video has been up for a week and has less than 10k views 😕
Great interview, well done 👏🏾
Great interview, can't believe I am just seeing this now on the day of the deadline no less. Hopefully I get the opportunity to shadow Mr Forbes as I believe I could gain a lot from this. Miss Mei expect an email very soon.
If there were a black person with no formal education how would they get into tech in the UK ?
The concept it great as are the guests BUT the interviewer needs to be a bit more courteous. Success isn't always married to a number, Lin seems to focus on the finances a lot rather than the mastery of the craft.
This is a great interview, more of this content needs to be produced. There are soo many more influencial black brits that have success stories like this too. Dean also has another recent interview where he speaks more in depth about his journey here: ua-cam.com/video/cc6evJOfzck/v-deo.html
Sounds like Avelino
Please. Ask succinct questions & let the guest speak !!!! We are here to hear his perspective & gain jewels …not get her long winded rambling questions. Kmt
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isnt he upper class, not middle class? The guys worth £40m.....
The upper classes don't work and rely on inheritance and money from estates
@@futurekarlos5256 His kids will inherite a fuck lot of millions though so by your definition his kids will be upper class while he's still middle class, which doesn't really make sense lol
@@jimjones2757 Of course it makes sense. Otherwise how would people move up and down classes? There has to be a point where a person is working class and their children are middle class or middle class and their children are upper class
Class is not really money related. It’s lineage based. He won’t be considered upper class regardless of how rich he is. It is true though that for the most part wealth and class are interlinked.
@@SuperKillaki this and another factor is culture. It's dependent on the circles you move in. There's many places just having money isn't going to get you in e.g. country clubs or bidding on certain properties or lands needs a certain position in society.
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He's way past middle class... Him and his wife has build generational wealth.
Not in the UK. Our class system doesn't work like the Americans. Financially, he definitely has as much, if not more money than we'd consider "upper class", but the UK's class systems are societal, not financial, so the upper class are the gentry (old money, lords, dukes, etc)
Great advice from Dean. Don’t particularly like Lin Mei hopefully they get a better interviewer next time thi
Is he on Instagram I need to speak to him
There is your first mistake. Go on Twitter if you want to speak to people.
You dont
@@msmgt5482 I don't what
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16:25 Very good choice of question, considering Dean's talk of his success story could have risked alienating the viewer.
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150 bags is not fascinating? Really?
You are an amazing girl. I wish you were my wife
Like this girl... but £150,000 a year not fasinating. Get back in touch with audiance.
Good conversation but I can't help but admire Linmeis sexyness
Hi Lin Mei, when is the next video?
"Undermines the work, undermines the process"💯✊🏾🤲🏾🙏🏾🤎