FOUNDER #47. James Haskell & Dodge LIVE Talk on Entrepreneurship

James Haskell and Dodge Woodall take the stage live at IdeasFest to talk about life after the final whistle, the reality of entrepreneurship and why the people who win right now are the ones who are real.

James, who won 77 caps for England, talks openly about the day he retired and went from international rugby player to having no income, no structure and no routine overnight. He explains why retirement is one of the hardest things any sportsman faces, the loss of identity that comes with it, and how seeing Matt Hampson’s career-ending injury at 21 taught him early on that everything in sport is finite.

He shares how he built a business life around performing, from eight books and a podcast to making music, and how he went from nervous first DJ sets to playing for Carl Cox at Universe in Ibiza.

Dodge shares how growing up above pubs next to a nightclub shaped him, from selling tickets as a kid to running 12 nights a week across the country and putting everything on the line for the first Bournemouth Sevens in 2008. 19 years later it’s still independently owned. Together they get into the honest side of building a business: doing your homework before you launch, hiring good people, and why only a small percentage of entrepreneurs make it. They also take live questions from the audience on culture, Gen Z in the workplace and why we all need to put our phones down.

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