#551 - VO - Simon Squibb - Content creator - The Dreams Maker

#551 - VO - Simon Squibb - Content creator - The Dreams Maker

From Génération Do It Yourself by Matthieu Stefani | Orso Media

June 27, 2026 · 2h 0m · Episode 550

About this episode

Simon Squibb shares his journey from homelessness to becoming a successful content creator and entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of dreams and education.

Retrouvez l'épisode en version française ici : https://www.gdiy.fr/podcast/simon-squibb-vf/ "What's your dream?" Four words that Simon Squibb has asked over 10,000 strangers on street corners, outside food banks, in airports all around the world. Most people freeze. That moment of blankness is exactly the problem he has spent the last decade trying to fix. Simon dropped out of school at 15 when his father died and his mother kicked him out. Then came eight weeks sleeping in stairwells and on the streets, which lit in him a relentless drive to build and create. So he knocked on a stranger's door, announced he was starting a gardening company, and charged £200 a month for a garden he didn't know how to tend. That business lasted eight months before the English winter killed it. After that, Simon builds, shuts down and resells several businesses, leading up to Fluid, a creative agency he grows for twenty years out of Hong Kong before handing it over to PwC. Then he retires, and despite having everything, he nearly loses himself. In 2019, he starts approaching strangers in the street to ask them about their dream. Today Simon has 15 million followers across platforms and he is the…

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