The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett XX
[0] Did you know that the DariVosio now has its own channel exclusively on Samsung TV Plus?
[1] And I'm excited to say that we've partnered with Samsung TV to bring this to life, and the channel is available in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
[2] Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming service available to all owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy mobiles and tablets.
[3] And along with the Dyeravisio channel, you'll find hundreds of more channels with entertainment for everyone all for free on Samsung TV plus.
[4] So if you own a Samsung TV, tune in now and watch the Dyer of a Cio channel.
[5] right now.
[6] When you look at your career, you are a tremendous outlier in terms of the journey you've taken and what you're doing now.
[7] That's very kind.
[8] Thank you.
[9] And then you trace it back and go, you've came from a council estate, not too far from here, for you to have gone on that journey and achieve the things you have, I always think there must have been certain factors in those early years that made you take a different course to those friends that might still be on the estate now.
[10] it might have been, you know, we talked a little bit about values there, it might have been, you know, I don't know, something someone said to you an experience you had or just the conditioning, whatever it is.
[11] But my question is, do you know what those factors were that made you an outline?
[12] I mean, you sound as though you've done a lot of work on yourself and in the little bit that I know about you, I can tell you.
[13] I get to meet people and ask, so I learn so much from these kinds of answers.
[14] Right.
[15] And I've made documentaries for over 10 years.
[16] So it's the same thing, you know, you learn so much from your environment if you're willing, to drink in the information.
[17] And I just, in thinking about between therapy and also being present in moments like this, you know, yes, there are cameras, but I'm having a conversation with you and I'm learning from you.
[18] And that certainly was the case in 10 years of making films, you know, for the BBC.
[19] So when it sort of comes to me looking at how I've become the person I am and how my journey has played out the way that it has done, it's an amalgamation of different moments, and instances, but fundamentally it comes down to a desire, even as a kid, to understand and be aware.
[20] And it's progressed into this idea of being present and understanding the moment that you're in and why you're there and taking as much from the moment as possible.
[21] So as a child, I would always ask questions and I was far too aware of my environment for my own good.
[22] So for instance, I'll never sort of forget going to my friend Kieran's.
[23] Oh, no, yeah, it was Kieran Buckley's house.
[24] I went to Kieran Buckley's house in Barnsbury.
[25] And my mom was very protected so she wouldn't let me play at Friends Homes.
[26] I know you know how that goes.
[27] And I went to Kieran's and I was in the garden and he had this massive, massive beautiful Islington Garden with several trees in it.
[28] And I asked him, how come you've got a park at the back of your house?
[29] And his mother sort of overheard and laughed a bit and it stayed with me. And it's like, it's not part of my God, what are you talking about?
[30] Come on.
[31] Freeing in, you're in goal, mate.
[32] And then you play this game, you don't think about it.
[33] And then I remember going back to my councillor state and looking at the one tree that me and Corey used to climb and think, I don't have what he has.
[34] Why is that?
[35] And then you start to think about these things and then start to understand class and where you are.
[36] And even so far as the area, you know, I started to really recognize the power of my walk to school.
[37] Even as a kid, before I got to secondary school, I was like, this is really weird.
[38] Like, I live in a borough, Islington, in North London, that has everything from council states with immigrants and white working class, right the way through to multi -million pound houses.
[39] And I lived on a road called Liverpool Road, which is such an important road that I haven't only, I've only become aware of how important that road is to my journey in recent years.
[40] So I lived at the Holloway end of Liverpool Road.
[41] And Liverpool Road is a long road that runs through Islington.
[42] And at the other end is Angel.
[43] An angel gentrified years before Holloway did.
[44] Holloway is a very different place now.
[45] And they had a waitrose.
[46] They had a Sainsbury's, and you had these gorgeous, massive townhouses.
[47] And, you know, if you deviated off Liverpool Road, you'd be in Barnsbury, and there were these beautiful little villagey roads.
[48] And Holloway was where the people that I grew up around lived, and you had these estates.
[49] You had every kind of madness you can imagine happening on my estate.
[50] Like I remember the first time I saw a machine gun, was in my estate at like nine years old when the police were raiding a flat on my floor because there was all kinds of craziness there.
[51] I mean, you're just playing on the balcony on your estate, on the floor that you live on.
[52] And you got armed police there, you know, let alone the other times that you see other weapons or you see other things happen.
[53] And those walks that I would go on where I would be like, wow, the bit that I live in versus the bit that I'm walking through versus the bit that I'm going to to go to school, I know what bit I want to live on.
[54] so I better start thinking about how I'm going to get to that bit of the road.
[55] It's so fascinating you'd say that and it took me in my head back to back to my own experiences, being a kid and this really vivid memory I have one day of looking up at the sky and seeing a plane and then looking down at my street and thinking, I wonder if all of these families this is what they wanted from their life and the plane for me was the juxtaposition between a family going on holiday.
[56] I'd never been on, like other than coming from Africa, we'd never been on holiday.
[57] So I was thinking, oh my God, people are going on holiday.
[58] And then I looked down.
[59] at my street and I look up again and I see this plane and a lot of people will have that but it takes a different mind to then think I want to be on the plane I want to be at the other end of Liverpool street um but then also I have some idea about how to get there or maybe you didn't have some an idea about how to get there but maybe just the I mean I don't know if you believe in like manifestation just that I want to be there so I'm going to make decisions over the next 10 years in that direction right well my journey is super weird right because from the age of eight I was a work acting actor.
[60] So I was constantly reminded about my difference just by being present and by being aware even as a child.
[61] So it didn't take much for me to realize you're not like your friends, Reg, because you're currently working while they're at school and you've been allowed time of school to work.
[62] So straight away, you're like, okay, I'm a bit different.
[63] And this is a bit of a weird situation to be in.
[64] And then you look around and there's a hundred people on set and you're the only black person, both in front of all behind the camera.
[65] And you go, okay, wow.
[66] Um, I'm not like any of these people here and the conversations that you hear about what people did on the weekend or where they're going there even or even conversations about wine like little things that people take for granted culturally anybody drinking wine in my house you know what I mean like Shalur was a big deal you know going to Sainsbury's was a big deal like we used to walk to Dawson with backpacks to go and buy meat and tin tomatoes and carry them back because we never had a car what does that do to you though when you're on set everyone else is a different skin color and they're talking about things that you're not familiar with in terms of like, let's be honest, like class, right?
[67] Absolutely.
[68] What does that do to you and does it put a chip on your shoulder?
[69] Does it make you more ambitious?
[70] Does it make you think, fuck, I'm out of place.
[71] I'm an imposter.
[72] Yeah.
[73] Well, it could have put a chip on my shoulder and I'm incredibly thankful that it didn't.
[74] What it did do was make me so hungry to create an environment where I could feel comfortable.
[75] And what that progressed into was understanding that it's going to take me a while to get to the point that I'd like to be at.
[76] therefore it would be and become my responsibility to create that for someone else, to create that for another eight -year -old me or 15 -year -old me. And I feel incredibly proud that I'm able to do that now because I recognize the power of it.
[77] And regardless of those moments of feeling out of place or being sort of feeling as though, you know, your class is being, is being waved in your face.
[78] Like I told this story the other day to a friend of mine who's, I'm godfather to his child.
[79] It's one of my good, good friends, Sam Wilkinson, is he's a dude.
[80] director who I made a lot of my documentaries with.
[81] And he's got my gorgeous little godson in his hands, little teddy and we're chatting away.
[82] And I was telling him a story about being at this primary school in Israel and where you've got kids from estates and kids from quite, you know, affluent homes, all in the same school.
[83] And at lunchtime, you had these kids with Thundercats, lunchboxes and these incredible sandwiches and KitKat minis, all the things that I never had in my house, you know, you're sort of looking at tinfoil that hasn't been used 50 times.
[84] And you're like, oh my God, they're throwing the tinfoil in the bin.
[85] What the hell?
[86] What hell is going on?
[87] They're not being made to fold and put it back because you can use it for dinner tomorrow.
[88] Anyway, so you're like taking all of that in and every lunchtime, I'll never forget, Pat, God bless her, the head dinner lady, this big lady, big lady would walk out and she'd go, free school dinners!
[89] And all the kids that were on free school dinners used to have to stand up and go and get your food.
[90] And it sort of broke you a little bit as a kid because your mates were just a bit like, oh my God, can you want to imagine?
[91] And I told this story to Sam and he started crying.
[92] And Sam started crying, I think, not because, well, I think he felt a little sad for a little mini -mee, but he also, as a father, imagined his son in that position.
[93] And I'm sure we'll get onto family and fatherhood and stuff, but I, you know, I realize how much fatherhood has softened a lot of my friends and also has made me very sort of cognizant of my journey and also just how important my childhood was in shaping who I've become.
[94] Did you know that the Dariovaccio now has its own channel exclusively on Samsung TV Plus?
[95] And I'm excited to say that we've partnered with Samsung TV to bring this to life and the channel is available in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
[96] Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming service available to all owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy mobiles and tablets.
[97] And along with the Dyeravisio channel, you'll find hundreds of more channels with entertainment for everyone all for free on Samsung TV Plus.
[98] So if you own a Samsung TV, tune in now and watch the Dyer of a CEO channel right now.