" To get the chance to speak to people who’ve been in my shoes, who’ve been there and done it and can point you in the right direction, away from the danger areas, would be amazing. An entrepreneur who’s started small and got bigger and bigger- I’d just love to sit down and have a conversation with this person and ask them, this is the way I want to go, what’s the best way of getting there? That was the driving force behind me entering the Challenge- to be able to pick someone’s brains. Quite honestly, if you speak to people I went to school with, there’s not many who would tell you that I would be here running my own business. I can guarantee that they would all suspect I’d be down and out. There’s nothing better than being able to shout about what we’re good at here in the North East, but I don’t think we shout loud enough. I just think this is a brilliant opportunity to tell the rest of the country, “Look what we’ve got up here. If we can do it, you can do it. "
