Thriving Minds

Thriving Minds 🎧Conversations with Forbes30U30,
Wellness Experts & Business Leaders
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🎙️Host: Alberto Zandi–Forbes30U30 & Times100

🎧 Conversations with Forbes under 30 | Wellness Experts | Business Leaders
🚀 The podcast to unlock the best version of yourself
🎙️ Hosted by Alberto Zandi – Forbes 30U30 & Times 100
🎖️ 300,000+ subscribers

09/08/2026

Asking an investor for money can feel like asking them for a favour. Simon Woodroffe, founder of YO! Sushi and YOTEL, sees it differently. If you genuinely believe you have built something worth backing, you are not begging for money. You are giving someone the opportunity to be part of it. And when that belief is real, convincing someone becomes much easier. Confidence in the ask starts with confidence in what you are offering.

09/08/2026

The real reason to build a business is the day you get to sell it. Simon Woodroffe, who has taken two separate exits out of the same business, sold a minority stake in YO! Sushi in 2003 and a second stake in 2008 for a reported fifty million pounds. He compares every business to a house of cards built by a child, impressive right up until it falls over. Build it so it can survive without you.

09/08/2026

Consistency makes you look lucky.

08/08/2026

Simon Woodroffe did not open his first restaurant until he was forty seven. Founder of YO! Sushi and YOTEL, he still wonders what an earlier start might have looked like. Building YO! Sushi's first four years were the most stressful of his life, and not every idea afterward worked, including airships meant to cross the Atlantic in two days and a funeral brand someone pitched as Yo Below. Not every idea needs to survive to be worth having.

08/08/2026

Over delivering is not about being generous. It is a strategy. Simon Woodroffe, founder of YO! Sushi and creator of the YOTEL capsule hotel concept, tells young people to stop asking what a job pays and start asking how much they can over deliver. He wants customers leaving saying they cannot believe what was just done for them, even though some people take advantage of it. Being taken advantage of occasionally is the cost of being remembered.

07/08/2026

Before your life even began, forty million others were competing for the same chance. Simon Woodroffe, founder of YO! Sushi and creator of the YOTEL capsule hotel concept, distils decades of business experience into one belief: make the most of the life you were given. You already overcame extraordinary odds just to be here. Playing small would be the greater risk. You got the chance. Do something with it.

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