Paul McGee - The SUMO Guy: From Living With M.E. To Helping Manchester City

In this installment of The Engaging Marketeer, I talk with motivational speaker and best-selling author Paul McGee a.k.a The SUMO guy. Paul has been speaking in public for well over two decades, guiding his audiences with his ethos of 'Shut up and move on', which he has developed into a self-development philosophy that has helped countless people. The success of SUMO has been compounded by Paul's success as an author, publishing a total of 13 books, with his original SUMO book becoming a Sunday Times bestseller. Paul and I discuss the origins of SUMO and how SUMO has helped him recover from setbacks in his own life. We talk about Paul's involvement with Premier League football teams such as Manchester City, revealing some of the similarities and differences in the ways that elite athletes adapt and respond to change as compared to the general public. Paul has spent much of his professional life inspiring and helping others, although massive success was not simply handed to him on a plate, as he reveals in this episode. About Paul McGee Paul McGee is a hugely successful public speaker, business coach and training expert. However, before he was the SUMO guy, Paul was forced to live by the mantra of 'Shut up and move on' well before it helped him become a motivational icon. Plagued by myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome) in his early adult life, Paul had no choice but to become a self-employed motivational trainer. Despite an early lack of success, Paul's determination helped him to become a massively successful figure in motivational speaking and self-development. Paul still takes his SUMO principles to businesses and institutions all over the country and beyond, and he can now be found on a variety of social media platforms, where he shares brand new video content. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulm5/ https://www.thesumoguy.com https://twitter.com/thesumoguy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUn8r9hCk8ewTXHapv1-Ngg About your host Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/ https://engagingmarketeer.com https://www.engageweb.co.uk  Support the show: https://engageweb.clubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.