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Podcast: Entrepreneur's Enigma
Episode: Jake Smolarek's Journey From An Immigrant With Not Much To His Name To A Multiple Time Entrepreneur And Business Coach
Description: Jake Smolarek is a high-performance coach and entrepreneur with over 20 years of business experience and 17 years of coaching high-achievers, including entrepreneurs, founders, executives, and professionals, ready to stop playing small and follow through.
After arriving in the UK in 2004 with just £150 in his pocket and barely speaking English, Jake built multiple businesses from scratch across construction, PR, digital marketing, and coaching while navigating some of life’s most brutal setbacks.
In 2007–2008, he lost everything during the financial crash: his business collapsed, he went into debt, his relationship ended, and he wa...